{"id":560275,"date":"2026-03-24T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:19:11","slug":"gap-opens-at-top-as-four-perfect-players-register-first-votes-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560275\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap opens at top as four perfect players register first votes: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanah Boyd<\/a> continues to hold top spot in Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP at the end of Round 3, with the Warriors halfback making a case to hold a spot in the team once Luke Metcalf<\/a> returns from injury.<\/p>\n

Another 19 votes during the Warriors’ win over the Newcastle Knights<\/a> means he has now claimed 56 votes out of a possible 60 across the opening three games from our judging panel, and holds the lead to Penrith Panthers<\/a> fullback Dylan Edwards<\/a> who has also made a red-hot start to the season after a disappointing 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

Edwards managed 18 votes on the weekend, and is now five votes behind Boyd, while it’s 12 votes to the chasing pack, led by Thomas Jenkins<\/a>, Jackson Ford<\/a> and Sua Fa’alogo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four players – Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> fullback Connor Tracey<\/a>, South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> counterpart Jye Gray<\/a>, Parramatta Eels<\/a> hooker Tallyn Da Silva<\/a> and North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> fullback Scott Drinkwater<\/a>, who at one point wasn’t going to play against the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> – all managed perfect scores in Round 3, with the quartet all registering their first votes of the campaign.<\/p>\n

In the other games, Penrith fullback Dylan Edwards<\/a> and winger Thomas Jenkins<\/a>, Melbourne Storm<\/a> second-rower Joe Chan<\/a> and Brisbane Broncos<\/a> counterpart Jordan Riki<\/a>, Boyd and Warriors forward Jackson Ford<\/a>, and Dolphins<\/a> duo Jake Averillo<\/a> and Kulikeu Finefeuiaki were voted best on ground by at least one judge.<\/p>\n

As a reminder of how this works, our panel, comprising Zero Tackle founder Matt Clements, journalist Leo Twemlow, and writer Dan Nichols, alongside myself as editor, will cast votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis from each game of the premiership season.<\/p>\n

Here are the Round 3 votes.<\/p>\n

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Top Ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanah Boyd continues to hold top spot in Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP at the end of Round 3,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-560275","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\/560275","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=560275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}