{"id":739404,"date":"2026-06-16T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739404\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:19:11","slug":"kennedy-katoa-surge-but-status-quo-at-the-top-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739404\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy, Katoa surge but status quo at the top: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four of the five games played in Round 15 of the 2026 NRL<\/a> season saw players score a perfect 20 votes in Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP race.<\/p>\n

None of the players features in the top ten; however, all four have made improvements to their position, with William Kennedy<\/a> (11th), Isaiya Katoa<\/a> (31st), Jarome Luai<\/a> (44th) and Cody Walker<\/a> (65th) managing to attract the full five votes from all four judges.<\/p>\n

The other game, which saw the Parramatta Eels<\/a> knock over the Canberra Raiders<\/a> in an upset, saw Isaiah Iongi<\/a> and Kitione Kautoga<\/a> split top spot.<\/p>\n

Of the top ten, in a heavily impacted round by byes, only Jackson Ford<\/a> managed to score, going back into fourth spot with five votes, while Braydon Trindall<\/a> moved into tenth spot with 16 votes in the Sharks’ win over the Warriors in Auckland.<\/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

In a week where a lot of votes came out looking the same across the five games, here are all the tallies for Round 15.<\/p>\n

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Top Ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four of the five games played in Round 15 of the 2026 NRL season saw players score a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-739404","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\/739404","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=739404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}