{"id":773266,"date":"2026-07-02T01:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773266\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:37:17","slug":"nrl-news-2026-ben-te-kura-released-by-brisbane-broncos-to-pursue-nfl-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773266\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Ben Te Kura released by Brisbane Broncos to pursue NFL career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos<\/a> prop Ben Te Kura<\/a> has officially been granted a release from the club and will move to the United States to pursue an NFL<\/a> career.<\/p>\n

The young gun was granted time away from his commitments with Brisbane earlier this season<\/a> to take part in a six-week training camp.<\/p>\n

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Ben Te Kura will leave the Broncos.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Te Kura has clearly found success in the American sport, with the club confirming on Thursday morning that he would now move to Arizona full-time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to the Broncos for everything they\u2019ve done to support me in pursuing an opportunity in the NFL,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking my NRL debut for the Broncos against the Storm in 2024 was such an unbelievable moment for myself and my family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI owe the club so much for the faith they\u2019ve had in me right from day one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At this stage, Te Kura has not signed with an NFL team but will move overseas to continue testing and training in the hopes of joining a roster.<\/p>\n

Broncos general manager Troy Thomson wished the 22-year-old the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an incredible opportunity and one we felt was important to help facilitate … everyone at the Broncos wish Ben and his family all the very best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The towering Te Kura played five NRL games for the Broncos. <\/p>\n

He will now look to follow in the footsteps of Jordan Mailata<\/a>, who played lower grades with South Sydney before becoming an NFL superstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos prop Ben Te Kura has officially been granted a release from the club and will move to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-773266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773266","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=773266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}