Tanah Boyd continues to hold top spot in Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP at the end of Round 3, with the Warriors halfback making a case to hold a spot in the team once Luke Metcalf returns from injury.

Another 19 votes during the Warriors’ win over the Newcastle Knights means he has now claimed 56 votes out of a possible 60 across the opening three games from our judging panel, and holds the lead to Penrith Panthers fullback Dylan Edwards who has also made a red-hot start to the season after a disappointing 2025 campaign.

Edwards managed 18 votes on the weekend, and is now five votes behind Boyd, while it’s 12 votes to the chasing pack, led by Thomas Jenkins, Jackson Ford and Sua Fa’alogo.

Four players – Canterbury Bulldogs fullback Connor Tracey, South Sydney Rabbitohs counterpart Jye Gray, Parramatta Eels hooker Tallyn Da Silva and North Queensland Cowboys fullback Scott Drinkwater, who at one point wasn’t going to play against the Gold Coast Titans – all managed perfect scores in Round 3, with the quartet all registering their first votes of the campaign.

In the other games, Penrith fullback Dylan Edwards and winger Thomas Jenkins, Melbourne Storm second-rower Joe Chan and Brisbane Broncos counterpart Jordan Riki, Boyd and Warriors forward Jackson Ford, and Dolphins duo Jake Averillo and Kulikeu Finefeuiaki were voted best on ground by at least one judge.

As a reminder of how this works, our panel, comprising Zero Tackle founder Matt Clements, journalist Leo Twemlow, and writer Dan Nichols, alongside myself as editor, will cast votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis from each game of the premiership season.

Here are the Round 3 votes.

 

 

 

 

 

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