{"id":575132,"date":"2026-03-30T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575132\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:25:20","slug":"south-sydney-rabbitohs-star-jye-gray-on-permanent-switch-to-fullback-help-of-latrell-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575132\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sydney Rabbitohs star Jye Gray on permanent switch to fullback, help of Latrell Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jye Gray<\/a> says he is relishing the permanent switch to fullback and is leaning on Latrell Mitchell<\/a> after coach Wayne Bennett<\/a> shook up the Jye Gray<\/a> backline.<\/p>\n

Gray was having to play second fiddle to Mitchell across his first two seasons in the top grade, typically only getting a crack at fullback when the NSW and Kangaroos superstar was injured, suspended or away in State of Origin camp.<\/p>\n

Mitchell spent quite a lot of time sidelined over the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which gifted the pint-sized Gray plenty of opportunities to show his wares as a fullback.<\/p>\n

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The 22-year-old is now the Rabbitohs’ permanent fullback despite the return to fitness of Mitchell, who has seamlessly slotted back in at left centre.<\/p>\n

\"Latrell<\/p>\n

Latrell Mitchell embraces Jye Gray.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

“I have been enjoying it,” Gray said on Nine’s Today.<\/p>\n

“It’s awesome Latrell is such a good player in two different positions and I was lucky enough for Wayne to back me in [at] fullback.<\/p>\n

“I just try to put my best foot forward and do my job for the team week in, week out, and hopefully we get the two points come Friday.”<\/p>\n

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Gray said he would be “silly” not to pick Mitchell’s brain in his full-time move.<\/p>\n

“He’s one of the best players in the league … He’s got such remarkable skills,” Gray said.<\/p>\n

“I try and take some little things each week that I can learn and run with those.”<\/p>\n

Gray was linked with a move to R360 but he knocked back the riches of the rebel league, instead inking a three-year Rabbitohs extension until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n

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Jye Gray scores a try against Wests Tigers.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

R360 had offered Gray a deal worth $920,000 a season, according to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, but the livewire stuck fat with rugby league and breathed a sigh of relief when the breakaway league postponed its intended start date to 2028.<\/p>\n

The rebel league was initially supposed to get off the ground in 2026.<\/p>\n

Gray has been exceptional for the Bunnies to start this season, scoring two tries and averaging more than 150 run metres per game. <\/p>\n

Souths will take on Canterbury in the clubs’ annual Good Friday fixture this week, squaring off at Accor Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jye Gray says he is relishing the permanent switch to fullback and is leaning on Latrell Mitchell after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-575132","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\/575132","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=575132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}