{"id":93635,"date":"2025-08-25T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93635\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:25:10","slug":"adelaide-crows-josh-worrell-signs-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93635\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows’ Josh Worrell signs contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide<\/a> defender Josh Worrell has penned a six-year contract extension, tying himself to the Crows until the end of 2033.<\/p>\n

The long-term deal is reward for a career-best season that coincided with Adelaide winning the minor premiership.<\/p>\n

Worrell has averaged 20 disposals and six marks per game this year, and was crucial to Adelaide conceding only 71 points per match in the regular season \u2014 a number only bettered by Collingwood.<\/p>\n

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“To say it was a quick process would be an understatement,” Worrell, 24, said of the contract talks.<\/p>\n

“I had two years left on my contract, but I really couldn’t imagine playing anywhere else.<\/p>\n

“I love where this club is heading, I love my teammates and I love this city \u2026 Adelaide is where I want to be for the long term.”<\/p>\n

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Josh Worrell in action for Adelaide this season.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Crows list boss Justin Reid applauded how far Worrell had come since being drafted in 2019 and spending considerable time in the SANFL.<\/p>\n

“Josh is having another outstanding year for us down back,” Reid said.<\/p>\n

“His development over the past two seasons has been so impressive and we’ve watched him grow into one of the top intercept defenders in the competition.<\/p>\n

“The buy-in and belief we have from Josh and our playing group as a whole has been fantastic.”<\/p>\n

Worrell, who hails from Melbourne, was taken with pick 28 in the 2019 draft.<\/p>\n

He’s played 52 AFL games, including 22 of a possible 23 this season.<\/p>\n

He missed a considerable chunk of last season after suffering a broken arm mid-match.<\/p>\n

Adelaide, who finished a win clear on top of the ladder, will meet Collingwood in a qualifying final at Adelaide Oval after the pre-finals bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide defender Josh Worrell has penned a six-year contract extension, tying himself to the Crows until the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-93635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93635","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=93635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}