2025’s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\nIn a video on his Instagram, Cox thanked the club and supporters, saying he was “pretty excited about what’s next”.<\/p>\n
The towering ruck-forward didn’t confirm if he intended to retire or try to extend his career at another club.<\/p>\n
“It’s crazy to think that you’d never heard of a sport … to then be a premiership player,” Cox said.<\/p>\n
“Collingwood supporters are the best supporters in the world.”<\/p>\n
Cox famously debuted on Anzac Day 2016, kicking the first goal of the game in front of 85,082 people at the MCG.<\/p>\n
A former college basketballer, Cox was signed by Collingwood as an international rookie in 2014 after impressing at two combines – one in Los Angeles, and the second in Australia.<\/p>\n
After 20 games over his first two seasons on the Magpies’ main list, Cox became a regular in 2018 as Collingwood shot back up the ladder.<\/p>\n
In one of the most extraordinary preliminary final performances, Cox powered Collingwood into the 2018 premiership decider with a towering effort to help dethrone red-hot favourites Richmond.<\/p>\n
The Magpies went down to West Coast the following week in a thriller, but Cox became a premiership player five years later when Collingwood defeated the Brisbane Lions in an epic 2023 Grand Final.<\/p>\n
Cox became an Australian citizen in 2022 during a ceremony at the MCG.<\/p>\n
Wearing goggles for his final few seasons due to a serious eye injury, Cox ends his time at the Magpies with 127 goals.<\/p>\n
List boss Justin Leppitsch said: “Mason, who moved to the other side of the world to pursue a sport he had never played before, worked incredibly hard to learn the unique skills of Australian Rules. His dedication and commitment to Collingwood are a credit to the person he is.”<\/p>\n
Fellow premiership player Tom Mitchell has also not been offered a contract<\/a> with the club for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American-born Collingwood tall Mason Cox has been informed he won’t be offered a new contract after 139 games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-221970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}