{"id":404393,"date":"2026-01-10T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404393\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:20:13","slug":"adam-elliott-confirms-new-nrl-club-in-career-lifeline-nrl-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404393\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Elliott confirms new NRL club in career lifeline – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

He has now been confirmed as a new acquisition for the Rabbitohs on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam has been a consistent performer at the NRL<\/a> level for a decade now and we feel he will add experience and create more depth within our forwards stocks this season,\u201d Rabbitohs head of recruitment and retention Mark Ellison said in a club statement.<\/p>\n

\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

\u201cWe’re 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

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

The deal, which is believed to be cut-price, comes 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

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

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":"The three-club race for Adam Elliott’s signature is over, with the released Newcastle Knights forward set to continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-404393","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\/404393","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=404393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}