{"id":901817,"date":"2026-09-22T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901817\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:02:13","slug":"nrl-2026-transfer-whispers-news-rumours-updates-jesse-mclean-to-join-bulldogs-in-2027-casey-mclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901817\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Transfer Whispers, news, rumours, updates, Jesse McLean to join Bulldogs in 2027, Casey McLean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panthers superstar Casey McLean has confirmed his older brother Jesse will leave the foot of the mountains for the Bulldogs at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Jesse McLean has been linked to the Bulldogs since June but the club hasn\u2019t officially confirmed the signing.<\/p>\n

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However, McLean\u2019s brother, Origin star Casey, spoke about the move with ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously pretty gutted that we won\u2019t be on the same team,\u201d McLean said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be a weird feeling at first, but I\u2019m super excited for the opportunity that he\u2019ll be given.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Marcelo Montoya retiring and the Bulldogs losing Bronson Xerri to the Storm, McLean will have the opportunity to win a starting spot in 2027.<\/p>\n

Jesse McLean.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also no clarity over what position Stephen Crichton will play given he ended the year in the halves.<\/p>\n

McLean appeared in four first grade games for Penrith since debuting in 2023, scoring just the one try.<\/p>\n

He was on the six-man bench for the Panthers\u2019 qualifying final win over the Roosters but wasn\u2019t utilised.<\/p>\n

He crossed for 14 tries in 20 games at NSW Cup level this season for the table-topping reserve grade side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers superstar Casey McLean has confirmed his older brother Jesse will leave the foot of the mountains for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-901817","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\/901817","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=901817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}