{"id":404318,"date":"2026-01-10T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:27:16","slug":"adam-elliott-receives-offer-of-nrl-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404318\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Elliott receives offer of NRL lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would appear the three-club race for Adam Elliott’s signature is over, with the released Newcastle Knights<\/a> forward set to continue his NRL<\/a> career with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the NRL’s most underrated and consistent performers, Elliott, who can play lock or hooker, was not offered a new deal by the Knights at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

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The Knights are in the middle of a restructure of their playing roster and salary cap as they look to climb away from the bottom of the table under the coaching of Justin Holbrook<\/a> heading into 2026.<\/p>\n

Elliott has been chased by the Wests Tigers<\/a> and St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> per widespread reports throughout the new year, but was also in the sights of the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

News Corp are now reporting an offer is on the table from the Rabbitohs, with Elliott a chance of signing with the club in the coming days.<\/p>\n

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It’s understood the deal is only a one-year, cut-price deal, with South Sydney’s salary cap stretched following the recent signing of David Fifita<\/a> after he was released from the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elliott still needs to pass a medical at the Rabbitohs but has toured club facilities.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old played just seven games in 2025 after suffering an arm injury in Round 12 which ended his campaign.<\/p>\n

Given South Sydney recently let Davvy Moale<\/a> go a year early, and that they have lost Jacob Host<\/a>, Siliva Havili<\/a> and Shaquai Mitchell<\/a> during the off-season, Elliott will be an important acquisition for the club, however, is no guarantee of starting.<\/p>\n

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Cameron Murray<\/a> will almost certainly assume the lock forward role after missing the 2025 campaign with injury, while Lachlan Hubner<\/a> and Tallis Duncan<\/a> are also in the mix.<\/p>\n

Duncan is expected to start in the second-row, while Keaon Koloamatangi<\/a> and Jai Arrow<\/a> will likely be at prop.<\/p>\n

The floated six-man bench could be the fastest way to a spot in the NRL<\/a> week in and week out for Elliott.<\/p>\n

Eliott has played 173 NRL<\/a> games dating back to his debut, having played for the Bulldogs, Raiders and Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would appear the three-club race for Adam Elliott’s signature is over, with the released Newcastle Knights forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[10745,64,63,4612,7992,761,762,4495,92511,158,4439,85,4563,101147,4515],"class_list":["post-404318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-adam-elliott","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gold-coast-titans","tag-knights","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-newcastle-knights","tag-news-corp","tag-nrl","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports","tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","tag-the-knights","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404318","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=404318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}