Christian Wade’s career has been a wild ride—from chasing gridiron dreams to settling into life with the Wigan Warriors. He’s not been one to follow a straight path.
With an established top tier and some young options revealing themselves last season, here is a look at where clubs' QB depth charts stand. Contracts and long-term outlooks do not factor in here; these rankings apply only to 2025 on-field capabilities.
Tomos Williams signed off his final game for Gloucester ahead of the Autumn Nations Series with a virtuoso performance at Kingsholm as his side comfortably beat Newcastle 36-7.
Wade was yellow-carded late in the action amid a storming Bristol fightback, but he also showed his class with a treble that took his Premiership career try tally to 85.
Christian Wade scored a hat-trick of tries as Gloucester claimed a remarkable 44-41 Gallagher Premiership victory over west country rivals Bristol at Ashton Gate.
The 33-year-old is poised for his first top-flight campaign since quitting Wasps in the early stages of the 2018/19 season for a shot at making American football’s NFL.
Gloucester wing Christian Wade has said that wearing the Kansas City Chiefs badge was a "success in itself" for Louis Rees-Zammit after the former Wales wing failed to make the Super Bowl champions' 53-man roster on Tuesday.
The Kingsholm boss also delivered his first verdict on the club’s major new signings, Wales half-backs Gareth Anscombe and Tomos Williams and former Racing winger Christian Wade.
An international selection by the Bills The Buffalo Bills have some history with international prospects after previously getting involved in the international program with running back Christian Wade in recent years.
It was February 27 when we first published the rumour that the former England winger was being lined up for a switch to Kingsholm from Racing 92 to replace Louis Rees-Zammit.
Rees-Zammit is ironically on the NFL's International Player Pathway (IPP) since January, the same programme that the 32-year-old Wade joined when he quit Wasps in 2018.
The former England winger quit Wasps in 2018 to try and make it in the NFL and he spent three years at Buffalo Bills before making a return to rugby with Racing 92.
The 32-year-old was named on Monday as a new signing for the 2024/25 season, a move that will see the long-time Saracens talisman link up with director of rugby Stuart Lancaster, his England coach from 2012-2015.
All NFL training camp storylines don't revolve around the stars. Mike Tunison and Chris Mueller tout long-shots Christian Wade of the Bills and Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi of the Browns.