SANTA CLARA -- Jarryd Hayne said he couldn't pick up Chip Kelly's playbook as quickly as his 49ers teammates, prompting his decision last month to leave the NFL and make a run at Fiji's Olympic rugby team.
"I just think with Chip's playbook, it's such an intense playbook that it would just take too much time," Hayne told the Sydney Morning Herald. "Me not having that college history, I think a lot of the guys adapt to it a lot faster because they've had the college playbooks. I was always behind the nine ball just learning in general.