{"id":573768,"date":"2026-03-30T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:12:11","slug":"three-year-deal-with-warriors-confirmed-for-will-warbrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573768\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-year deal with Warriors confirmed for Will Warbrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outstanding Melbourne Storm winger Will Warbrick will join the One New Zealand Warriors on a three-year deal from next season following official confirmation of his signing today.<\/p>\n

The Kawerau-born 28-year-old\u2019s move home comes after veteran Roger Tuivasa-Sheck announced on Friday that he will finish his NRL career with the Warriors at the end of the season to join Wakefield in the Super League.<\/p>\n

Warbrick underlined his ability yet again with the second four try haul of his career in the Storm\u2019s 24-28 round four loss to North Queensland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike a number of other players we\u2019ve signed in the last few years, a huge attraction for Will was to come back home to play for the Warriors,\u201d said One New Zealand Warriors general manager recruitment, development and pathways Andrew McFadden.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has made a brilliant transition to rugby league to become one of the elite wingers in the competition. We\u2019re thrilled to have him joining us from next season.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Making his NRL debut in 2023, Warbrick has now scored 43 tries in 60 appearances for the Storm while he made a try-scoring Test debut for the Kiwis against the Kangaroos in the 2024 Pacific Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cBringing Will home to play for the Warriors is huge for us,\u201d said One New Zealand Warriors head coach Andrew Webster.<\/p>\n


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\u201cHe\u2019ll be a terrific asset on the wing with his height, pace, aerial ability at both ends of the field, his work rate and attitude. He also comes out of a great system at the Storm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warbrick, who played in the Storm\u2019s back-to-back grand finals in 2024 and 2025, averages more than 150 metres a game across his career while he\u2019s returning more than 170 metres a game so far this season.<\/p>\n

He switched to rugby league from rugby union in 2022 after spending three years with the All Blacks Sevens which included being a member of the silver medal-winning squad at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

He has the distinction of representing New Zealand in three codes, not only rugby union and rugby league but also Australian Rules football.<\/p>\n

Profile | Will Warbrick<\/p>\n

Born: March 6, 1998
Birthplace: Kawerau, NZ
Junior club: Ngongotaha Chiefs
Position: Wing
Height: 193cm
Weight: 105kg
NRL debut: Melbourne Storm v Parramatta Eels, CommBank Stadium, Sydney,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 2, 2023 (Rd 1)
NRL appearances: 60 for Melbourne Storm (2023-2026)
NRL points: 172 (43 tries)
Representative: Two Tests for Kiwis 2024, M\u0101ori All Stars 2025
Rugby union: All Black Sevens 2019-2021, silver medallist 2020 Tokyo Olympics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outstanding Melbourne Storm winger Will Warbrick will join the One New Zealand Warriors on a three-year deal from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-573768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573768","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=573768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}