{"id":12728,"date":"2025-04-04T04:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/former-australia-rugby-player-jordan-petaia-signs-with-nfls-los-angeles-chargers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T04:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:25:57","slug":"former-australia-rugby-player-jordan-petaia-signs-with-nfls-los-angeles-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/former-australia-rugby-player-jordan-petaia-signs-with-nfls-los-angeles-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australia rugby player Jordan Petaia signs with NFL&#8217;s Los Angeles Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Australia rugby player Jordan Petaia has signed with NFL team the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Petaia, 25, played in 31 Tests and at two Rugby World Cups for the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has joined the Chargers as part of the NFL&#8217;s International Player Pathway (IPP) after training for 10 weeks at the IMG Academy in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Petaia turned his attention to American football after ending his rugby career in December after six years playing for the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chargers said he would now work with tight ends coach and run game co-ordinator Andy Bischoff alongside the team&#8217;s other tight ends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cj9en8vl0jyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australia rugby player Jordan Petaia has signed with NFL team the Los Angeles Chargers. Petaia, 25, played in 31 Tests and at two Rugby World Cups for the Wallabies. He has joined the Chargers as part of the NFL&#8217;s International Player Pathway (IPP) after training for 10 weeks at the IMG Academy in Florida. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12730,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions\/12730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}