Rowntree left Munster after leading them to a fourth defeat in the opening six games of the United Rugby Championship season against the Sharks in Durban on Saturday.
Scotland wing Darcy Graham will play his first competitive match in eight months after being named in Edinburgh’s starting XV for Friday’s United Rugby Championship opener at home to Leinster.
The 26-year-old – who is second on the national team’s all-time try-scoring list – missed the opening two matches of the championship against Wales and France with a quad problem.
Toulouse fullback Blair Kinghorn has returned to the Scotland squad ahead of the Calcutta Cup clash with England on Saturday in the Guinness Six Nations.
Eddie Jones will surely look back on his seven-year England tenure and have a lot of 'what ifs', but the biggest of all is probably something he had no control over whatsoever.
Time was practically up when RugbyPass finally fleetingly caught up alone with Darcy Graham in the Saturday night mixed zone in Lille.
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Darcy Graham has been ruled out of the Scotland Rugby World Cup warm-up match with Georgia on Saturday after suffering a quad strain.