{"id":311847,"date":"2025-11-27T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:04:09","slug":"nrl-2026-titans-gray-earns-upgrade-after-promising-debut-nrl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311847\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Titans, Gray earns upgrade after promising debut NRL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promising prop forward\u00a0Brock\u00a0Gray\u00a0has been upgraded to the Titans\u2019 top 30 roster for the next two seasons after a strong start in Gold Coast colours.<\/p>\n<p>The New South Wales Cup journeyman moved north for an opportunity with a full-time train-and-trial deal in 2025, working hard to become one of the club\u2019s most impressive players during the pre-season and was rewarded with a NRL debut in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old went on to play six games as a reliable middle forward off the bench before having his maiden year in first grade cut short by an ACL rupture in Round 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Both Gray and his partner Natasha Penitani are locked in with the Titans until the end of the 2027 season.\" class=\"inline-image__image o-shadowed-box\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/132a9033.jpg\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n      Both Gray and his partner Natasha Penitani are locked in with the Titans until the end of the 2027 season.&#13;<br \/>\n        \u00a9Titans Media&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>On the verge of being cleared to return to full training after rigorous knee rehab,\u00a0Gray\u00a0is pleased to be extending his time as a Titan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m really grateful for the belief the club has shown in me after my ACL injury and I\u2019m excited to be remaining on the Gold Coast until at least the end of 2027,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m as hungry as ever to get back out on the field after being sidelined rehabbing my knee and I can\u2019t wait to work hard and repay the faith the Titans have put in me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also really appreciate the chance to continue sharing my rugby league journey with my partner Tash (Penitani), who has just finished her first season as a NRLW Titan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promising prop forward\u00a0Brock\u00a0Gray\u00a0has been upgraded to the Titans\u2019 top 30 roster for the next two seasons after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-311847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311847","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=311847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}