{"id":768141,"date":"2026-06-29T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:49:40","slug":"six-go-perfect-as-olakauatu-fires-to-top-three-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768141\/","title":{"rendered":"Six go perfect as Olakau’atu fires to top three: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six players have landed a perfect 20 votes in Round 17, with the full round between Origin 2 and 3 allowing for plenty of changes to the overall leaderboard in Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP race.<\/p>\n

Haumole Olakau’atu<\/a> is the most notable of the players at the top scoring 20, moving into second place and regaining his Origin spot on the back of a barnstorming performance against the Melbourne Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herbie Farnworth<\/a> and Naufahy Whyte are also into the top ten with scores of 20, with this being the first time Whyte has cracked the top ten all year.<\/p>\n

Simi Sasagi<\/a>, Jason Taumalolo<\/a> and Stephen Crichton<\/a> were also unanimously voted as man of the match by our panel, while the other two games saw Tallis Duncan<\/a>, Cameron Murray<\/a>, Greg Marzhew<\/a>, Dominic Young<\/a> and Dane Gagai<\/a> named as the best by at least one judge.<\/p>\n

Dylan Edwards<\/a>, playing in Penrith’s loss to the Cowboys, did enough to hang onto a slender lead at the top of the overall leaderboard ahead of Olakau’atu, while Scott Drinkwater’s 13 votes moves him back aheadof Nathan Cleary<\/a>, with James Tedesco<\/a> rounding out the top five.<\/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 all the Round 17 votes.<\/p>\n

Top ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six players have landed a perfect 20 votes in Round 17, with the full round between Origin 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-768141","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\/768141","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=768141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}