{"id":503595,"date":"2026-02-25T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:53:14","slug":"nrl-news-2026-matt-burton-60-metre-kick-nfl-future-las-vegas-raiders-caleb-rogers-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503595\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Matt Burton 60 metre kick, NFL future; Las Vegas Raiders; Caleb Rogers reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Burton<\/a>‘s 60-metre conversion is still creating reaction and has now made itself all the way to the NFL<\/a> ahead of the NRL’s Las Vegas opener.<\/p>\n

On February 9, the Bulldogs posted on social media a video of Burton kicking an NFL ball through the training ground posts from well beyond halfway.<\/p>\n

That video, and Burton’s torpedo bombs, have continued debate about whether he could switch to the American sport.<\/p>\n

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Burton’s manager, David Riolo, has previously confirmed there’s been interest from NFL scouts and the five-eighth wouldn’t shy away from an opportunity.<\/p>\n

At Las Vegas’ high performance centre, Nine’s Danny Weidler took the opportunity to show the video of Burton’s kick to Raiders player Caleb Rogers.<\/p>\n

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Danny Weidler and Caleb Rogers.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

“That’s insane,” he reacted.<\/p>\n

Asked if Burton could make the switch, Rogers replied, “Oh yeah”.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs trained first at the high performance centre<\/a> before the Dragons made an appearance.<\/p>\n

St George Illawarra forward Luciano Leilua was one player who mingled with the Las Vegas players.<\/p>\n

In the off-season, Leilua has undergone a physical transformation, losing 20 kilograms.<\/p>\n

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Luciano Leilua playing for the Dragons in trials. \u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

“I had to lose some weight, the game was getting too fast … I was getting too big and too slow for the game,” he told 9News Sydney.<\/p>\n

Leilua put it down to cutting out sugar and McDonald’s.<\/p>\n

The Dragons will play the Bulldogs on Sunday at 3:30pm (AEDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Burton‘s 60-metre conversion is still creating reaction and has now made itself all the way to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-503595","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\/503595","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=503595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}