{"id":775485,"date":"2026-07-03T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775485\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:43:13","slug":"you-do-the-math-former-storm-star-ryan-papenhuyzen-shuts-down-untrue-return-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775485\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You do the math\u2019: Former Storm star Ryan Papenhuyzen shuts down \u2018untrue\u2019 return rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Papenhuyzen has emphatically denied he\u2019ll be returning to the NRL anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old shocked the sport when he walked away from his Storm contract during the off-season with a year to run on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Since, Papenhuyzen\u2019s future has been a source of on-and-off speculation. <\/p>\n<p>The latest rumour doing the rounds is that the Bulldogs are considering a possible play for Papenhuyzen, which journalist Paul Kent revealed on his \u2018Kenty Blitz\u2019 podcast.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Storm fullback more or less shut that down as well as a couple of other sources of speculation he\u2019s heard regarding a potential comeback<\/p>\n<p>Papenhuyzen is currently holidaying in the US but will return to Australia in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t know where people keep getting it from to be honest,\u201d Papenhuyzen said on his One Six Seven podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Papenhuyzen has shut down rumours he&#8217;ll be back in the NRL or any other sport.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was James Graham who said at the start of the year that I\u2019d back in June. It\u2019s July and I\u2019m in the US so you do the math. That\u2019s one that\u2019s also wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also denied any links to the Perth Bears, an unnamed Sydney club and breakaway rugby union competition Rugby 360.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot true,\u201d Papenhuyzen firmly replied when asked about those three rumours specifically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just not playing footy again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s also other rumours about flag football and rugby sevens at the Olympics. But no to those as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Papenhuyzen has emphatically denied he\u2019ll be returning to the NRL anytime soon. The 28-year-old shocked the sport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-775485","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\/775485","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=775485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}