{"id":949613,"date":"2026-11-02T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949613\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:38:10","slug":"nrl-news-2026-josh-addo-carr-roadside-drug-test-negative-parramatta-eels-meeting-to-discuss-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949613\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Josh Addo-Carr roadside drug test negative; Parramatta Eels meeting to discuss his future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The police have withdrawn their case against Josh Addo-Carr<\/a> after a second roadside drug test returned a negative result.<\/p>\n

Addo-Carr was staring down a 12-week NRL suspension<\/a> and the Eels<\/a> were reportedly considering tearing up his contract, but the negative drug test is likely to give the superstar winger a reprieve.<\/p>\n

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Josh Addo-Carr\u2019s career hangs in the balance.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Parramatta flyer was informed about the negative result by police just hours before he was scheduled to front the club\u2019s board, with his future on the line.<\/p>\n

Addo-Carr has been a popular player at the club on and off the field, with the Eels eager to sort out his future before players return to pre-season training. <\/p>\n

With his future clouded for two months after allegedly testing positive to cocaine when randomly pulled over for a roadside test by police in September, Addo-Carr was waiting to plead his case and learn his fate with the club board. <\/p>\n

The 31-year-old checked himself into rehabilitation clinic for a month<\/a> after the first test result, losing his sponsorship deal with automotive group JAC just days before doing so.<\/p>\n

Addo-Carr will now front the board on Monday afternoon where he is expected to be supported by his lawyer Elias Tabchouri and manager Marcel Tartak, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n

Parramatta had seemingly already begun their hunt to replace the winger, with the club linked to Bradman Best, Jack Bostock and James Schiller.<\/p>\n

The trio is off contract for 2027. <\/p>\n

It is not the first time Addo-Carr has been in this position, having being sacked by the Bulldogs<\/a> after returning two positive roadside drug tests a week out from the club\u2019s first finals match in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police have withdrawn their case against Josh Addo-Carr after a second roadside drug test returned a negative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-949613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949613","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=949613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}