{"id":949979,"date":"2026-11-02T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949979\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:12:16","slug":"nrl-news-2026-sam-walker-contract-at-the-roosters-james-tedesco-comments-november-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949979\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Sam Walker contract at the Roosters; James Tedesco comments; November 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Tedesco<\/a> has thrown his support behind Sam Walker<\/a>, backing him to stay at the club next season despite his impending departure. <\/p>\n

The Roosters won\u2019t return to the negotiating table for Walker<\/a> with his current set to end after the 2027 season. His future at the club is now under question with the Roosters reportedly happy to let him go early.<\/p>\n

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Sam Walker and James Tedesco.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

However, club captain Tedesco wants his halfback to stick around in the short term. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want him there. His credentials, what he\u2019s achieved so far in his career, we want him there, I think all the players would agree with that,\u201d he said on 9news Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what that looks like on the business side of footy or what Sammy wants to do as well, but Sammy is a big part of our team and our success this year, and we want him next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker is on the lookout for a new club<\/a>, with the player market heating up post November 1 and rivals now able to make offers for those off contract. <\/p>\n

The halves market itself is wide open with Nathan Cleary, Cameron Munster, Walker and Matt Burton all high on the list. <\/p>\n

Latrell Mitchell, Herbie Farnworth, and Jack Bostock are off contract too as clubs ponder how to manage their salary caps. <\/p>\n

Tedesco himself is off contract but seeing him finish his career outside the Roosters would be one of the great shocks in rugby league. <\/p>\n

The fullback admitted he hopes to sign on with an eye towards retirement after his next deal. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had good chats with Robbo and will be pretty keen for \u201928 … I feel like I can go for another two years, that will probably be me (done) if I do 28,\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be pretty content with that, hopefully we can work something out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Tedesco has thrown his support behind Sam Walker, backing him to stay at the club next season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-949979","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\/949979","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=949979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}