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Jarryd Hayne quits rugby league to try out for NFL

 

Renowned for his acceleration and counter-attacking prowess in the rugby league, Hayne said he believes he has the skills to make it as either a punt returner or kick returner.

"I believe I have the speed, I'm a quick learner, I feel things out really quickly," he said. "I have no doubt it's going to be tough. Ultimately it's a 12-month plan, going over there and trying to make a train-on team. For me to do that I need to start preparing for that around January or February." The 2014 NFL season is underway, so he's aiming for 2015.

Hayne travelled to the United States for a personal tour of the Seahawks and University of Washington Huskies' operations in September, less than three months after speaking to Fairfax Media in Australia about his desire to play American football.

He had two training sessions with UTS, a Sydney-based American football team, at the end of the 2013 NRL season and said "it's something that excites me."

"I actually spoke to Reggie Bush in depth about it when he was over here," he told Fairfax in July. "We were talking about different plays, what Detroit was like, what Miami was like and New Orleans was like. It interests me."

 

To be perfectly honest, the idea's a little "out there" for me, but I thought I'd leave it here for people to read and speculate on.

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Read the first sentence.

 

Meh, I don't think he'd help us there either. I'd rather try out De'Andre Presley as you mentioned elsewhere. I do believe I read elsewhere that long-term he projects as a LB or RB. I'll see if I can dig it up.

 

edit: ah, the first thread on this topic is where I saw it: 

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