{"id":33305,"date":"2025-07-30T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33305\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:43:10","slug":"nrl-news-the-mole-2025-james-tedesco-closing-in-on-new-deal-with-sydney-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33305\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news, The Mole 2025: James Tedesco closing in on new deal with Sydney Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sydney Roosters<\/a> are close to locking in a deal that will see champion fullback James Tedesco<\/a> play out his career with the club.<\/p>\n

Although he turns 33 early next year, Tedesco is in career-best form and has been sensational for the Roosters this season.<\/p>\n

The veteran fullback is under contract until the end of 2026 but the Roosters are looking to extend him for another year with a further 12-month option.<\/p>\n

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The club is keen to have the deal done before November 1 so Tedesco cannot be approached by rival clubs – specifically the new Perth franchise which would see great value in signing an experienced player with Tedesco’s standing in the game.<\/p>\n

A Western Suburbs junior, Tedesco made his first top-grade appearance for Wests Tigers in round one, 2012 – but it was one of the worst debuts in NRL history.<\/p>\n

\"SYDNEY,<\/p>\n

James Tedesco of the Roosters.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

With no one near him midway through the first half, he attempted to run back a Cronulla kick downfield when his knee caved in – and he underwent major reconstruction surgery, failing to play again that season.<\/p>\n

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It was the first of many serious injuries to strike Tedesco during his career – but he kept coming back\u2026 and getting better and better.<\/p>\n

In 2018, he made the big decision to switch to the Roosters and it proved the best move of his career.<\/p>\n

He won a grand final in his first year in the red, white and blue and scored the winning try in the 2019 decider against Canberra as the Roosters went back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Tedesco is now approaching 200 games for the Roosters and is destined to go down in the club’s long history as arguably their best-ever fullback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Roosters are close to locking in a deal that will see champion fullback James Tedesco play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-33305","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\/33305","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=33305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}