From a Premiership Rugby Star to Making an NFL Roster: Christian Wade's Journey in American Football
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- From a star Rugby player in the UK to American football, this is the journey of Christian Wade’s transition into the National Football League.
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Love how he started angling towards the center on his preseason touchdown. Maybe rugby instinct.
Haha yeah definitely rugby instincts. First to get away from the defense and try outrun em and also yo get closer to the posts🤦♂️😂
I straight up expected him to dive into the end zone and touch the ball down on the ground as if going for a try
@@lukeb1663 oh man. I wish he would have. That would have been awesome...and made headlines. :)
@@lukeb1663 i remember hoping to see the same at the time, he'd have been iconic for that if the Bills kept him on.
Should turn this into a franchise or story mode in madden
"alex hunter leaves real madrid to become kicker for miami dolphins"
EA's not gonna do that. That takes effort.
Timjko lol
@@flymb3358 lmao the last great ea sports game was ncaa football 14
FLYMB lol
His biggest weakness, as a rugby player, and the reason he didn't cut it internationally, was his defensive frailty. He doesn't haven't that issue in the NFL, good luck to him.
When you look at how well Cheslin Kolbe is doing with South Africa you have to wonder if he could have had more of an impact. I think England's style of play also counted against him to a degree.
@@iluvmusicqwe Wade is no way near Kolbe and that's from an England fan
Shouldve given NRL or NZ Rugby a go. Then again, if hes just had enough of the rugby/league sport, then best of luck. Hope he finds his enjoyment.
And he acts like he’s going to nfl because he’s too good for rugby 😂
i.e. I wasn't good enough to be an international player, highest level of rugby, so I went to the NFL
Love how hyped my man Gore was for Wade. Literally shows how all us bills fans feel haha.
Post on your channel kid
Bills UK fan, was so buzzed when he got a play and that being his first touch daaaaamn I was screaming cheering at the TV
I love how the coaches sat him on the sideline the whole preseason game until they saw his rugby moves. After that it’s basically his game😂
He took a huge gamble going to the NFL, hes still young and still could have made a huge impact on rugby still if he stayed. But all the best to him
27 isnt very young in the NFL
money is good tho
The whole thing has been a disaster except for the public relations aspect.
Man like Chris Waaaaade
Wadey - you're a star whatever you play!!! Loved you at Wasps, and looking to follow you as you turn the NFL into your game too
I hope he gets what he deserves. He seems like a level headed chap with a supportive family. Well done to you Christian. A sound role model for the BME community too.God bless you.
Kiwi living in Aussie, Just discovered Mailatas story and now watching all of these great stories, these guys have worked Soo hard and have so much courage to step out of their comfort zones to pursue new dreams, they deserve all the rewards!!!!
As a wasps fan (his former club) this makes me so happy
As a Wasps fan.. this video made me slightly emotional. So so happy for him!
Well this is amazing I hope he has long healthy career
Committed and dedicated. Mad love. What a great athlete
I'm cheering for all those guys! Amazing!
Well done great story much love in down under 🇦🇺
That's awesome!! Hope he sticks around in the league
Look up ELF football, its basically a reborn NFL Europe.
Should maybe grant an extra roster spot exemption for international transfers
They do for practice squads. Hence Wade is the 11th guy on the Bills practice squad this year.
Yeah there is on practice squad. Most likely the international players won't have learned enough of the playbook to really be able to make the cut by the first game.
Such a great story!!
Absolutely delighted for him, what a future he has, I only wish it was with the Bengals, now I'll have to follow the Bills as well.
Nice, puts meaning behind NFL London games. Good stuff
Good for him! Great story, uplifting. Excited to see what he can do whenever the NFL can play again.
Plz sign him to the active roster I wanna see more wade on the field
Hope wade does really well. I'm gutted I never got to see him play rugby live. He's an absolute amazing talent.
Can't help but smile :)
Representing RGS and High Wycombe! So cool to see
2021. I an I know Buffalo loves Christian Wade for better or worse. No one expects him to unseat a professional Running Back but he has skills, heart, fantastic first carry and a quality personality and goodness about him.
Happiness, health and God bless always Christian Wade.
Follow your dreams, work hard, take each opportunity and go get it. Well done brother.
Ha cool I was at this game when he made his first touchdown was so sweet!
Good luck to this guy...he's grafted and earned his spot....props
Update in 2022: He's still on the practice squad for the Bills and hasn't seen any game time.
Congrats bruh!🐝
Hope you enjoy your new career😁
So much respect for this guy.
Love this 🙏
I can only imagine what this kid is going to do next year. Having learn and practice for a full year. Also our line is good at the run. Singletary and then him is going to be really good.
Kid....28 years old....
Good luck brother all the best
I love this.
Duzão representando Brasil!
love frank. once you get to the open field play rugby. hope c wade makes it this year
And now he is back playing club rugby in France so the NFL dream was short lived.
I like how Lottery is playing while he’s being interviewed
Wade is a legend still got wasps shirt from him when I was 11 been my idol since 10 years on way he handles himself different gravy
He has such a good CV yet he hardly played for England. It did seem whatever he did he would never get called up so I can see why he got bored with rugby. This meant that unfortunately for him he was never seen as an elite rugby player. He could really make that running back position his own
Rhys Powell mainly his defence held him back he was top tier offensively for a winger, this should not be an issue for him the nfl
He made an nfl practice squad lol , he’s better then 99.99% of trolls online who try hard to find excuses why he’s not good . Let the man play the sport for a few years then we can discuss his legacy , rugby is such a different sport then American football , comparing them isn’t intelligent , a few specific skills like catching , agility , vision of openings in blockers can carry over , if you say a man wasn’t on England’s national team equals a bad player is the same as stupidly saying any nfl player not on the all star team couldn’t be good at rugby professionally abroad , that would be stupid to say if that none all star was agile and very fast against top competition but didn’t make one team picking the top few in each position .
@@slamminsammy941 Let him play the sport a couple of years? He doesn't have a couple years. The NFL isn't a development league, they're not playing a 28 year old rookie who's never played the game over dudes who have played all their lives and are much younger. He looks promising in the highlights and I wish him well. Realistically, he had to come over years ago and at least play a couple seasons in college.
@@slamminsammy941 LOLWUT? Wade was a good player but his lack of size, defence and weakness under the high ball meant he'd never make the national team.
@Ons Huis Did I say anything about a degree? You're delusional if you think physical ability is all you need. All these guys have that ability, it's a prerequisite. 100% it's about experience or do you believe an international cricketer can become a major league baseball player within a couple years because he knows how to throw a ball and is athletic lol, come on man. It's not that easy.
I really hope he makes the roster next season. Alex Gray as well. Show what rugby players can do!
wow well done pal you showed what hard work and belief in yourself can get you in life. good luck in the NFL mate hope they play god save the queen for you after the American anthem
Great personality
I love it!
Great story 🔥👌
the best part of this vid is when frank gore gets so hyped for wade to play in his first nfl game
High Wycombe boy out here repping us well!!!!!
That was so cool!
Should definitely expand into the pacific like league and union coaches.
Great athlete is Christian Wade, and not a bad drummer too
Kids got some speed , lots of heart . Lets hope he doesn't get hurt playing with the big boys.
Lol he's played with the big boys quite a lot
With the Bills RB situation going into this offseason it looks like Wade is going to get a real good opportunity to make the 53 in 2021.
Epic!
he makes it like rugby. Even the way he carry the ball.
In Union ..his defensive skills were exploited. He is great going forward...but defensively awful...hence he barely played for England. NFL might be better for him...as he has zero defensive obligations
FOOL-he Bearly played for emgland.No such think.He either DIG play or DIDNT.FOOL
What? But he only played a few times...your comment confuses me...
@@leenaysmith3672 Do you not know what barely means?
Yes I know what Bearly means.What Im sayn is who decided he barely played.He played.Now whos the one to say he only bately played.You dig what im sayn
@@leenaysmith3672 He played 1 game in his entire career for England. That means he barely played. He played Domestic Rugby and never made it to International levels. Thats kinda like playing College Football and never quite making it to the NFL.
Glad to see more international players get the chance to play. The NFL is miles behind the other major four leagues, but players like Wade are what it will take for it to change.
American football just isn't as global as the other major sports, hence the lack of international players.
i almost cried watching dis😭
Wow, he was in the international class with Val Holmes!? I'm now a fan of this guy! I'm a Chiefs fans but, I hope he does well!
This made me so happy it made me sad. Not sure why that happens, but it did.
These stories of international athletes trying out and making Pro teams are very entertaining. Also, the narrator sounds just like the guy that narrates that A&E show, "The First 48." Kinda caught me off guard.
That td run gave me chills
just love them trying to understand him
When frank gore retires. Singletary will take his spot and wade definitely has to be the 2nd string rb behind him
IF Frank Gore retires lol, that man is a machine! But I definitely agree.
@@mikehendrix856 he's gonna be 50 and still playing lol
Wow!
Shout out to High Wycombe
Currently on the practice squad rn
Fr I saw he got cut at the beginning of the season. Glad they kept him he was so much more explosive than any other rb I saw during preseason
@@chefboiardee7068 They get an extra spot on the practice squad for players from then international program. They all got signed to practice squad and can be moved up at anytime. But if they are they lose the extra spot. That's why it was such a big deal the guy on the patriots got moved up to a full roster spot.
blord1205 who was the pats guy?
@@joe-yj1bw Jakob Johnson
@@blord1205 No, they cannot be moved up at any time. The 11th man exception players are not eligible to play in games the entire season. The international pathway guy on the Pats was made part of their 10 man practice squad. That's how they were able to call him up.
This reminds me so much of jarrod hayne
7:50 wicked, respect! Big up wourself, aaaaiiiii!
Anything is possible !!!!
Looks like over 40 yards he’d have about a 4.3 time, maybe even faster than that!! 12:00
Basically when he hits top speed no one can touch him. He's a sprinter that can cut like a soccer player.
God bless him
I was just waiting for the part where he scored
Singletary/Wade 2020! It's gonna be electric! LET'S GO BUFFALO!!
I used to play against his school in rugby, they've always been really good
Charlie Morris whst ?
Charlie Morris be played professional
He’s talking about Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. Wade’s old school which has produced a number of international players.
C 0 Yh exactly lol, what else could I have been talking about
10:38 thats crazy. 1st American Football Game was an NFL Game....
Im english living in canada and im now a bills fan cos of Wade
declan Walker lets gooooo
Same, I live near Niagara Falls, Bills are 20 minutes from me
This guy has great things to offer for Buffalo. GO BILLS
I like his parents accents, they def drinking tea. Lol
Let him loose on the field and you will see something new
nah
edff edededed
NFL, Rugby Union, Rugby league. Can one transition back and forth? The often asked question. The answer is both Yes and No. One can go from Rugby to Football, but not vice versa.
I referee Rugby Union in Canada and US. Played both Football and Rugby Union. I observe, 1) American football players don’t last physically in the game due to poor tackling habits. th-cam.com/video/TyDpjjarQ5Q/w-d-xo.html (American footballers trying to Union are always being carted off, can pick them out during warmups), 2) American players are anaerobically conditioned, they’re knackered after 5 minutes (I can see it in their eyes) th-cam.com/video/12ruyY7hq5k/w-d-xo.html 3) American football players don’t offload, at all. They’re easy targets. th-cam.com/video/DGn_tQUi-mw/w-d-xo.html, and 4) Rugby tackles are as hard and harder than NFL. th-cam.com/video/iKnf4xbV4Ak/w-d-xo.html.
American footballers get eaten alive in Rugby Union.
Oh - and they play through injury, th-cam.com/video/6xvEEFHwJRg/w-d-xo.html - none of that laying down for 5 minutes bullshit.
Tf, we be out here grindin for years and he gets to start his first ever football game in the NFL. But he good, keep up the work, like to se other people from Europe in the NFL!!
Grinding for years? Surely you wont/can't hold the years you weren't old enough to play in the NFL against him?
His first taste of a Buffalo winter will make that first hit from a linebacker feel like nothing.
He is from London is freezing there in winter
@@maoinc13 Nah London winters are mild compared to Buffalo, it just doesn't get as hot in summer either. The main problem with British weather is that for a lot of the year it is oppressively grey.
Cal Nfl I’m sorry but u don’t know a thing in London in the main part of winter is always - temperatures
@@jordanleigh7345 I'm literally English and from the north of England up in the hills which is far colder than London and I can promise you London winters are not that bad.
Cal Nfl and I live in London and I can ducking promise u in the middle of winter it’s always under - temp in the middle of winter so that’s not a mild winter
Well done mate, talk about that extra1%. You made it 👍
At 12:56 he's about to get tackled.
In NFL could he of offloaded the ball to his support runner and become a blocker or just take the tackle for his team mate to run the ball in ?
Do the helmets damper awareness abilities?
It's much riskier to do that in the NFL- keeping possession is key to the game, and turning the ball over just once can cost the game. It's much more worth it to keep the ball protected than to risk losing it for a few extra yards.
why am i tearing up tho
Both are great sports and share a common origin, the reigning olympic 15 man rugby gold medalists are the USA . It was a college team that turned up and has to have the rules explained to them. 1912 I think.
He was playing in the premiership and left to play shoulder charge football? Wow.
All jokes aside massive props
Couldn’t ask for a better guy than Gore.
❤❤
6:29 is that Valentine Holmes? Another rugby league player from Australia.
Gotta love these advanced marketing tactics. Haha nice play, nfl.
Good for the guys who took advantaged and benefited from this.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Joy
What a damm legend
8:21 he left him hanging lol
So... any lineman or defensive secondaries?
Bills have turned it around. I hope he makes it