{"id":607059,"date":"2026-04-14T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607059\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:40:09","slug":"drinkwater-goes-top-as-panthers-trio-falter-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607059\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinkwater goes top as Panthers trio falter: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Drinkwater<\/a> has claimed his fourth successive big tally of points to take the lead of Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP at the end of Round 6.<\/p>\n

A perfect 20 during the North Queensland Cowboys’ win over the Brisbane Broncos<\/a> means he has now claimed 77 votes out of a possible 80 across the last four games to lead by 12 votes to Nathan Cleary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cleary, Dylan Edwards<\/a> and Thomas Jenkins<\/a> are now uninterrupted between second and fourth despite not polling in Round 6.<\/p>\n

Tanah Boyd<\/a>, who managed a single vote, rounds out the top five, while Jackson Ford<\/a> and Adam Doueihi<\/a> both managed 20 to move into the top ten.<\/p>\n

Drinkwater, Ford and Doueihi were joined by Simi Sasagi<\/a>, James Tedesco<\/a> and Keano Kini<\/a> as the other players to claim the full 20 votes, while the other games saw Jacob Preston<\/a>, Lachlan Galvin<\/a>, Tom Trbojevic<\/a> and Jamal Fogarty<\/a> split top spot to start the round.<\/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 6 votes.<\/p>\n

Top ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Drinkwater has claimed his fourth successive big tally of points to take the lead of Zero Tackle’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-607059","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\/607059","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=607059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}