Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe deal ties the record for the longest signed by an Australian player, with only Lote Tuqiri and Michael Hooper signing five year contracts.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s [a] massive weight off the shoulders,” Jorgensen told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been going on for a little while now,\u00a0so it’s good to get it finally done and ready before the season starts,\u00a0so I can just focus on my footy for this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0love the Waratahs and Wallabies,\u00a0and love the footy that we’re playing at the moment,\u00a0and I couldn’t really see myself anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Within this deal is a pair of sabbaticals, allowing Jorgensen to play club Rugby overseas in 2028 and 2030.<\/p>\n
Jorgensen, who was born in England, would have a plethora of options worldwide.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, the Waratahs star could make the switch to Sevens for the Los Angeles Olympics, hunting for Australia’s first medal in the men’s event.<\/p>\n
Jorgensen’s former Waratahs teammate Mark Nawaqanitawase and Corey Toole made the switch for the Paris Games, helping them to their highest finish of fourth.<\/p>\n
The Balmain product played Sevens for NSW in 2021 and is keeping all options open regarding his future.<\/p>\n
\u201c100% [Olympics is] not off the table.\u00a0I have so much respect for those guys\u00a0and what they do over there in the sevens program,” he admits.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be very cool to play in the Olympics so it’s not off the table, but a conversation for another day…I think conversations comes over the next sort of year or so and for a later day, I think.\u00a0But still working through all that\u00a0and we’ll see where it takes me.”<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old was linked with a move to the NRL, which would see him follow in the footsteps of father Peter, who played two Tests before moving to the Sydney Roosters and Penrith Panthers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never really explored it,” he said on the rumours.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I always wanted to stay with the \u2018Tahs and the Wallabies,\u00a0so we never really went down that path,\u00a0which most people knew about,\u00a0and I always wanted to stay in this club.”<\/p>\n
After missing out in 2023 due to injury, Jorgensen was hungry to experience World Cup action.<\/p>\n
\u201c2023 was a tough year,\u00a0not only for myself, but for the Wallabies in a whole,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“It’s always been a dream of mine\u00a0to play in a World Cup, and especially a home World Cup. It doesn’t come around too often,\u00a0so to be able to hopefully get the chance to play in one of them\u00a0would be very special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallabies superstar Max Jorgensen is eager to further explore everything Rugby has to offer, including a potential berth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2500,33009],"class_list":["post-446660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies","tag-waratahs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446660","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=446660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}