{"id":600820,"date":"2026-04-11T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:46:08","slug":"brisbane-broncos-grant-ben-te-kura-leave-to-pursue-nfl-career-at-six-week-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600820\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Broncos grant Ben Te Kura leave to pursue NFL career at six-week camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Brisbane Broncos have allowed hulking prop Ben Te Kura a leave of absence to pursue an NFL career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Brisbane said 22-year-old Te Kura, the tallest player in the NRL at 205 centimetres, had been the subject of &#8220;long-term interest from the NFL&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The club has approved him taking six weeks away from NRL commitments to attend an NFL training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;At the conclusion of the six-week period, Te Kura will either return to Broncos&#8217; training, or the club will extend his absence to facilitate further steps towards a possible NFL opportunity in the United States,&#8221; the Broncos said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Te Kura has played just five NRL games since making his debut in 2024 as he has struggled with a series of injuries and is yet to take the field this season, playing three games in the Queensland Cup with Wynnum Manly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is in Australia to promote the San Francisco 49ers and LA Rams&#8217; NFL season opener in September at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Goodell arrived on the Gold Coast, where the NFL opened an academy in 2024, just as tickets went on sale for the 49ers-Rams clash and carried on to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;There&#8217;s no question that we&#8217;re going to be playing here again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our view is we&#8217;re coming here for the long term. We don&#8217;t come as one-offs, this isn&#8217;t a circus, this is an investment in this market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Goodell has also been promoting flag football as an Olympic sport after its inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The NFL wants to make sure 2028 is not a one-time appearance for flag football and announced on the Gold Coast an initiative to provide flag football kits to schools Australia-wide in the hopes the sport takes root in Australia ahead of Brisbane 2032.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Broncos have allowed hulking prop Ben Te Kura a leave of absence to pursue an NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,292851,4428,593,158,85,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-600820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ben-te-kura","11":"tag-brisbane-broncos","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nrl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-training-camp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600820","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=600820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}