{"id":715731,"date":"2026-06-04T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:44:17","slug":"problem-for-pezet-as-broncos-offer-rising-star-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715731\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem for Pezet as Broncos offer rising star new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off being handed the Brisbane Broncos’ five-eighth jersey over Ezra Mam<\/a> for this weekend’s clash with the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>, Tom Duffy<\/a> is set to lock up his future with a new deal at Red Hill.<\/p>\n

Originally off-contract at the end of this year, Duffy took a punt on leaving the North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> for the Brisbane Broncos<\/a> at the start of this year.<\/p>\n

Duffy has impressed in his opportunities though, playing one game at halfback when Adam Reynolds<\/a> was out, and coming off the bench in two more recetly.<\/p>\n

The Townsville-born product, once seen as the future of the Cowboys before Tom Dearden<\/a> become the club’s saviour, has shown plenty, and will now go into a three-way race the arriving Jonah Pezet<\/a>, who is currently injured at the Parramatta Eels<\/a>, and club veteran Ben Hunt<\/a>, who has indicated he wants to play on, to replace the retiring Adam Reynolds<\/a> at halfback.<\/p>\n

News Corp are reporting Duffy is on the verge of signing a new deal, and while it hasn’t happened yet, it’s undersood he will be locked up at the club until at least the end of 2028.<\/p>\n

With negotiations in what are believed to be advanced stages, it will raise significant question marks around what the Broncos look like in the spine moving forward.<\/p>\n

There is no secret the club are stretched in the salary cap department, with fullback Reece Walsh<\/a>, centre Kotoni Staggs<\/a>, forward Patrick Carrigan<\/a> and axed five-eighth Ezra Mam<\/a> at the top of their earning list.<\/p>\n

Mam is signed long-term, and there is nearly no chance his jersey will be up for grabs permanently moving forward, despite coach Maguire sending a strong message to his squad this week after a three-game losing streak became four on the weekend, dropping two competition points at home to the hapless St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That leaves Pezet, who joins from the Parramatta Eels<\/a> in 2027 and was once viewed as the future of the Melbourne Storm<\/a>, up against Hunt and Duffy.<\/p>\n

Pezet was viewed as the walk up Reynolds replacement when he joined, but that is a little less clear given his form and fitness struggles in the west of Sydney.<\/p>\n

If Duffy auditions well in the coming weeks, the headache will pick up for Maguire, who must make a decision on his first-choice halves for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off being handed the Brisbane Broncos’ five-eighth jersey over Ezra Mam for this weekend’s clash with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-715731","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\/715731","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=715731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}