{"id":222847,"date":"2025-10-18T13:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:51:32","slug":"premiership-player-departs-after-139-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222847\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership player departs after 139 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Cox, the first American to become a regular AFL player, has been delisted by Collingwood after 139 games. The 34-year-old has confirmed he won\u2019t be with the Magpies in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a video on his Instagram, Cox thanked the club and supporters, saying he was \u201cpretty excited about what\u2019s next\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The towering ruck-forward didn\u2019t confirm if he intended to retire or try to extend his career at another club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy to think that you\u2019d never heard of a sport &#8230; to then be a premiership player,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollingwood supporters are the best supporters in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"American Pie: Mason Cox and Collingwood are parting ways.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0ff36bb1cb54e4f98782330730c030c92e37d00f.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Pie: Mason Cox and Collingwood are parting ways.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>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<p>A former college basketballer, Cox was signed by Collingwood as an international rookie in 2014 after impressing at two combines \u2013 one in Los Angeles, and the second in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 games over his first two seasons on the Magpies\u2019 main list, Cox became a regular in 2018 as Collingwood shot back up the ladder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Cox, the first American to become a regular AFL player, has been delisted by Collingwood after 139&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-222847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222847","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=222847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}