{"id":403376,"date":"2026-01-10T03:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:45:10","slug":"%e2%9c%8d%ef%b8%8f-rabbitohs-sign-adam-elliott-for-season-2026-south-sydney-rabbitohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403376\/","title":{"rendered":"\u270d\ufe0f Rabbitohs sign Adam Elliott for Season 2026 \u2013 South Sydney Rabbitohs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Sydney Rabbitohs are delighted to announce the signing of representative forward Adam Elliott for the 2026 season today.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott, 31, has played 173 NRL games since making his debut for the Bulldogs against the Sea Eagles in round one, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Elliott, a proud Wiradjuri man raised on Yuin country, has represented the Indigenous All Stars on two occasions in 2019 and 2024, as well as Country Origin in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbitohs Head of Recruitment and Retention, Mark Ellison, says Elliott will add experience and depth to the Rabbitohs\u2019 forwards ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam has been a consistent performer at the NRL level for a decade now and we feel he will add experience and create more depth within our forwards stocks this season,\u201d Mr Ellison said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is renowned as a hardworking and aggressive forward, a punishing defender, and he has a reputation as a leader of men and a player that teammates want to play with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to seeing him in red and green this season and we welcome him, his wife Millie, and his children Lenny and Gigi to the Rabbitohs family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biography<\/p>\n<p>Name:<br \/>\nAdam Elliott<\/p>\n<p>Date of Birth:<br \/>\n16 October 1994<\/p>\n<p>Place of Birth:<br \/>\nBega, NSW<\/p>\n<p>Position:<br \/>\nLock, second row<\/p>\n<p>Height:<br \/>\n185cm<\/p>\n<p>Weight:<br \/>\n103kg<\/p>\n<p>Junior Club:<br \/>\nTathra Sea Eagles<\/p>\n<p>Previous Clubs:<br \/>\nBulldogs (2016-21), Raiders (2022), Knights (2023-25)<\/p>\n<p>NRL Debut:<br \/>\nBulldogs vs Sea Eagles, Brookvale Oval, 4 March 2016 (Rd 1)<\/p>\n<p>NRL Games:<br \/>\n173 (from 101 for the Bulldogs; 24 for the Raiders; 48 for the Knights)<\/p>\n<p>NRL Points:<br \/>\n72 (from 11 tries and two goals for the Bulldogs; two tries for the Raiders; four tries for the Knights)<\/p>\n<p>Rep Honours:<br \/>\nTwo games for Indigenous All Stars (2019, 2024); one game for Country Origin (2017); NSW Residents (2015)<\/p>\n<p>Awards and Achievements:<br \/>\nNominated for the Ken Stephen Medal \u2013 Man of the Year award (2018); NSWRL NSW Cup Team of the Year \u2013 second row (2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Sydney Rabbitohs are delighted to announce the signing of representative forward Adam Elliott for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-403376","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\/403376","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=403376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}