Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Christian wade made it onto a side for preseason a couple of years back.
had the talent in terms of running ability but ran all the wrong lines.
in NFL you can use other runners as blockers whereas in rugby you can't, so it must be difficult to adapt between the two
Jarryd Hayne (Aussie rugby league star) had a crack at it. He did fairly well in pre-season games.
However, as a running-back, he ran too upright. Things like that get ironed out of a player's game in high-school and college football.
The NFL are not going to waste time on teaching some overseas player how to run with the ball correctly at 22+ years of age, when there's a whole host of players in college football.
The NFL obviously want to have more of a global reach by recruiting overseas players, however, those would-be players are at a huge disadvantage before they've even begun.