Utah Warriors Sign Pro-Bowler Haloti Ngata

Former Highland HS Rugby All-American has signed with Major League Rugby’s Utah Warriors just two weeks after announcing his retirement from the NFL.

Haloti Ngata, the 5-time NFL Pro-Bowler and Super Bowl champion with the Baltimore Ravens, announced that he has signed an Associate Player Contract with Major League Rugby and will start immediately with the Utah Warriors.

Ngata, who played high school rugby at Salt Lake City’s Highland High School, had just announced his retirement from the NFL on March 18th on top Mt. Kilimanjaro with a banner which read, ‘I’m retiring on top’.

He matched that by hiking Utah’s Ensign Peak this weekend with a banner that reads, ‘I’m Going Back To Rugby’, making the statement that this is the place, rugby is the place that molded him to be the football player he is known to be.