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Christian Wade has done it again, lighting up the NFL with Buffalo

Christian Wade

Christian Wade has done it again, lighting up social media following yet another eye-catching play as he continues his impressive transition from rugby to American football.

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Wade made an emphatic start to his NFL career a fortnight ago with an audacious 70-metre touchdown for the Buffalo Bills.

His second act was just as impressive on Friday night when playing his part in his team’s 27-14 pre-season win over the Carolina Panthers who were held scoreless until the fourth quarter. 

The former Wasps and England winger caught a short pass from Tyree Jackson and then broke multiple tackles on his way to a 48-yard reception before getting halted just shy of the end zone.

That stellar contribution again lit up social media similar to his initial impact a few weeks ago in the Bills’ 24-16 win over the Indianapolis Colts.  

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Wade’s impact is becoming an impressive highlights reel that surely has him in the mix to make the Bills’ 53-man roster for the start of the NFL season next month.  

Wade had already doubtlessly won over countless fans with his first touch of the football in his early August debut, showing off his trademark pace after receiving the ball on his own 30-yard line and then skipping through the defence to net his team their six-point touchdown.

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Match commentators were in raptures with the score, as much as the Buffalo fans. “They are going crazy for their friend from England,” said one commentator.

Many Twitter users commented on Wade’s ‘unusual’ ball-carrying style – obviously something he has retained from his rugby days for useful use in NFL. 

WATCH: Skipper George Ford and assistant coaches Steve Borthwick and Scott Wisemantel talk about England ahead of Saturday’s game against Wales

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Tom 48 minutes ago
Borthwick, it's time to own up – Andy Goode

The problem for me isn't the pragmatic playstyle, it's that there is no attacking gameplan whatsoever.


I've got no issue with a methodical, kick heavy, defense centric gameplan. That playstyle won England our only world cup and it's won SA 4 of them. However! You can play in a pragmatic manner but you have to still play heads-up rugby and have the ability to turn it on when you manufacture prime attacking situations. England work very hard to get in the right areas of the pitch and have no idea how to convert when they get there, hence we tried and missed 3 drop goals as we were completely impotent in the 22. I've not seen any improvement in our attack in the last 4-5 years. The only time we got close to the tryline was from an interception, it's embarrassing. I don't know what Richard Wigglesworth is getting paid for.


I agree that England should have found a way to close out that game. Being able to grind out tough games is critical but I'd argue that being unable to string more than a couple of passes together without dropping it and finding a way to get over the gainline is even more important... But frustratingly, they don't seem interested. All you hear is about how close we are to bring a great team, we just need to execute a bit better. I don't see it. I see a team who are very physical, very pragmatic who do some stuff really well and are useless with the ball in hand which adds up to a very average side. They need to stop focusing on getting 5% better at the stuff we're already at an 8/10 level and focus on getting a lot better at the stuff we're doing at a 2/10 level. We have the worst attack of pretty much any side in the world... Argentina, Scotland, Fiji are way more threatening.

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