{"id":37810,"date":"2025-04-03T04:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/former-wallabies-star-jordan-petaia-signs-nfl-deal-with-la-chargers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T04:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:07:47","slug":"former-wallabies-star-jordan-petaia-signs-nfl-deal-with-la-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/former-wallabies-star-jordan-petaia-signs-nfl-deal-with-la-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wallabies star Jordan Petaia signs NFL deal with LA Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ex-rugby union player impresses Chargers at IPP trial in US<\/li>\n<li>\u2018A great career move for him,\u2019 says Super Bowl winner Jordan Mailata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former rugby union international Jordan Petaia is a step closer to realising a long-held dream of playing in the NFL after signing with the Los Angeles Chargers as a tight end.<\/p>\n<p>Petaia, who earned 31 caps for the Wallabies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/03\/jordan-petaia-nfl-quits-rugby-union-reds-wallabies-player\">turned his back on union late last year<\/a> after being handed a prized spot on the league\u2019s international player pathway (IPP) programme.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/03\/jordan-petaia-former-wallabies-star-nfl-deal-la-chargers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-rugby union player impresses Chargers at IPP trial in US \u2018A great career move for him,\u2019 says Super Bowl winner Jordan Mailata Former rugby union international Jordan Petaia is a step closer to realising a long-held dream of playing in the NFL after signing with the Los Angeles Chargers as a tight end. Petaia, who &#8230; <a title=\"Former Wallabies star Jordan Petaia signs NFL deal with LA Chargers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/former-wallabies-star-jordan-petaia-signs-nfl-deal-with-la-chargers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former Wallabies star Jordan Petaia signs NFL deal with LA Chargers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}