{"id":231951,"date":"2025-10-22T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231951\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:56:08","slug":"first-casualty-of-eels-pezet-play-emerges-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231951\/","title":{"rendered":"First casualty of Eels’ Pezet play emerges – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Parramatta Eels<\/a> will reportedly release half Dean Hawkins<\/a> to the English Super League<\/a> after signing Jonah Pezet<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\n

Pezet has reportedly signed with the Eels for one year, and will then link up with the Brisbane Broncos<\/a> from the start of 2027.<\/p>\n

The Storm half decided to leave the Victorian capital after the club re-signed Jahrome Hughes<\/a>, allowing him to activate a clause in his own deal.<\/p>\n

While not official yet, it’s believed the deal is very close to being kicked over the line, with the Eels only ever wanting Pezet for a single season before they turn their attention to other youth working through their own pathways.<\/p>\n

The Eels had been looking to Joash Papalii<\/a> to partner Mitchell Moses<\/a> in the halves during 2026 after Dylan Brown’s departure to the Newcastle Knights<\/a>, but Pezet is now almost certain to wear the number six.<\/p>\n

With Papalii still next in the queue, the The Sydney Morning Herald are reporting it means Dean Hawkins<\/a> has been handed a release from the remainder of his contract with the club to take up a gig in the English Super League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While it’s unclear which club he has been in contact with, the report suggests Hawkins will be signed to a multi-year deal to head overseas from the start of 2026 where he will look to put himself in the shop window for NRL<\/a> sides.<\/p>\n

Hawkins played a number of games throughout 2025 taking over from an either injured or State of Origin-selected Mitchell Moses<\/a>, and had solid results.<\/p>\n

Instead of being shuffled down the pecking order in the west of Sydney though, he will make the switch around the world where he will chase a regular number seven jumper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parramatta Eels will reportedly release half Dean Hawkins to the English Super League after signing Jonah Pezet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-231951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231951","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=231951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}