Rugby player switches to NFL

    Wasps winger Christian Wade has announced his shock retirement from Rugby Union – to switch to NFL.

    The 27-year-old, who won one England cap in 2013 and toured with the British and Irish Lions that year, is third in the all-time Premiership try-scorers list with 82 tries.

    It is believed he has played his last game of rugby but it is yet know which NFL team he will join.

    He joins rugby union players Alex Gray and Christian Scotland-Williamson in trying to crack American football.

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