Ryan Burroughs’ journey to the Toronto Wolfpack and Old Glory DC

Ryan Burroughs’ journey to the Toronto Wolfpack and Old Glory DC was a long and unlikely journey. This article would look at how his older brother Chris Burroughs influenced his younger brother on choosing his path in the sports world. This helped paved the path to get professional contracts with both the Toronto Wolfpack and Old Glory DC.

Ryan Burroughs Journey to Old Glory DC and the Toronto Wolfpack

The Childhood of Ryan Burroughs

Ryan Burroughs grew up with a single mother along with his older brother Chris Burroughs. The family did not have much growing up in Virginia. According to Aishwarya Kumar of ESPN.com, this is what his older Burroughs said:

“Our mom got a job in the hotel working as a maid. It was a low-budget one, so the owner let us live there,” Chris Burroughs said, recalling a time when they spent their nights in sleeping bags on the floor of a hotel room.

Furthermore, their paternal grandmother also made a big impact on the Burrough brothers:

“During summers, we would go stay with her” he said, “and one time we were picking up trash from the side of the road, cutting up weeds, and I remember people would stop in the neighbourhood, and they would hand us $20 and tell us to go take our grandma out for lunch.”

Lastly, both brothers made an impact on each other, they both filled the hole of not having a father. After Ryan Burroughs finished his stint with the US army, his older brother Chris Burroughs gave his younger brother advice according to the same ESPN.com article:

“Ryan, you are playing all these sports, but they aren’t going to take you anywhere. Pick a sport and be great at it.”

This advice by his older brother, helped Ryan Burroughs find a pathway towards a sport he would thrive in, which was rugby.

The Start of Ryan Burroughs Career

Ryan Burroughs started off his rugby league career for the USA Hawks, their national men’s team. In that same year, he played for the Northern Virginia Eagles until 2016 with 33 tries scored. He also had success with the Wentworthville Magpies scoring 17 tries in 2016. This helped earn Burroughs his first-ever pro rugby contract with the Toronto Wolfpack.

According to the Canadian Press of TSN, Burroughs began his journey of both codes of rugby at the end of his three-year stint with the US army. He began playing rugby union but decided to play rugby league with the Northern Virginia Eagles.

Ryan Burroughs Being Selected by the Toronto Wolfpack

Although the Toronto Wolfpack is a Canadian team, they were no other pro rugby league teams in the Americas including the U.S. Therefore, it was not surprising that Wolfpack was giving chances for rugby league players in the US and…