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Christian Wade released by the Buffalo Bills

Christian Wade in his Buffalo days (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Despite an electric start to his career in the NFL, Christian Wade has been technically released by the Buffalo Bills. Yet there is light at the end of the tunnel, as Wade is allowed to come back to the roster as the team’s designated International Player if he clears waivers.

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Wade scored a touch down with his first touch of a competitive football, but the former England and Wasps flyer will now likely spend more time in the practice squad.

Wade was released and retained on the practice squad nearly exactly a year ago, but a second season on a practice squad isn’t ideal for the 29-year-old, who is competing against players six years his junior and with decades of experience in the sport.

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A statement reads: “Christian Wade is eligible to come back to the roster as the team’s designated International Player if he clears waivers.”

Wade made a major splash in the last year’s pre-season. As well as a 65 yard TD with his first touch of the ball, the Englishman was also the second-fastest NFL player clocked on the first weekend of pre-season games, reaching a speed of 21.01 mph (33.8km) according to NFL’s Next Gen Stats.

“He real fast,” running back teammate Frank Gore told Buffalonews.com. “Real fast.”

As part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway program, four teams carried an additional overseas player on their practice squads.

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Tom 50 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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