Louis Rees-Zammit and Charlie Smyth may have secured NFL contracts but there is an unheralded first in the US
Bound for the Bayou: Charlie Smyth has signed a contract with the New Orleans Saints
It took 17 years of London NFL games and countless heroic failures from wannabe players but there is a Briton playing American football, along with Irishman Charlie Smyth.
Both have followed the International Player Pathway programme, previously known as NFL Undiscovered, which began in 2016 and was launched in aid of providing athletes around the world with the opportunity to earn a place on an NFL roster.
