{"id":941375,"date":"2026-10-26T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941375\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:24:18","slug":"nrl-news-2026-canberra-raiders-pull-contract-offer-for-hudson-young-release-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941375\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Canberra Raiders pull contract offer for Hudson Young, release statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canberra Raiders<\/a> have sensationally pulled their contract offer for NSW State of Origin star Hudson Young<\/a> after growing fed up with stalling negotiations.<\/p>\n

The Raiders confirmed in a statement on Monday afternoon that their contract offer for Young \u2013 a reported four-year, $4.4 million deal \u2013 was no longer on the table because they wanted an answer by the end of October and hadn\u2019t received one.<\/p>\n

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Hudson Young in action for Canberra.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Raiders need to know how much money they will have available for negotiations with off-contract players from November 1. <\/p>\n

The latest development means Young is set to leave Canberra when his contract expires at the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe offer that was made was the largest in club history. As a club, we believe we have done all we can to keep Hudson in Canberra,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, negotiations have been ongoing since June, and the club needed an answer before the end of October so they could plan for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cHudson remains contracted to the Raiders for the 2027 season, and we look forward to seeing him return for pre-season training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penrith\u2019s Liam Martin and Cronulla\u2019s Briton Nikora are among the back-rowers potentially about to become free agents on November 1.<\/p>\n

Young, 28, has played 155 NRL<\/a> games with Canberra since making his first-grade debut in 2019.<\/p>\n

The gun back-rower has also played six Tests for Australia and made nine Origin appearances for NSW.<\/p>\n

He was ruled unavailable for the World Cup after suffering an Achilles rupture in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canberra Raiders have sensationally pulled their contract offer for NSW State of Origin star Hudson Young after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-941375","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\/941375","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=941375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}