{"id":96086,"date":"2025-08-26T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96086\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:20:08","slug":"drinkwater-haas-charge-into-top-five-as-tedesco-edges-closer-to-win-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-25-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96086\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinkwater, Haas charge into top five as Tedesco edges closer to win: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 25 – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> fullback Scott Drinkwater<\/a> has used a perfect game to surge into the top five of Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP at the end of Round 25.<\/p>\n

The star was one of six players to claim a perfect 20 votes during Round 25, and while it strengthens his position, it doesn’t do anything to change the fact James Tedesco<\/a> is the likely winner.<\/p>\n

He didn’t register a vote in Round 25, but the only other player who could knock him out of top spot Terrell May<\/a> didn’t either, meaning the 25-vote gap between the pair remains.<\/p>\n

With just two games to play, Tedesco only needs to register 16 more votes in total to ensure he will take out our MVP for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n

Despite being injured<\/a>, Herbie Farnworth<\/a> remains in third spot, while Drinkwater is joined by Payne Haas<\/a> (who scored 16 votes) in moving into the top five.<\/p>\n

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck<\/a> and Joseph Tapine<\/a> are the other players who have moved into the top 10, with the Warriors’ star winger managing 100 votes over his last seven games.<\/p>\n

Tuivasa-Sheck and Drinkwater were joined by Jye Gray<\/a>, Ethan Strange<\/a>, Tom Trbojevic<\/a> and Reece Walsh<\/a> as the perfect 20-vote getters during Round 25, while the other two games saw Viliame Kikau<\/a> and Cameron Munster<\/a> split votes as Melbourne beat the Bulldogs. Josh Addo-Carr<\/a> and Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a> were named to the top spot as the Eels upset the Roosters.<\/p>\n

During every round of the 2025 NRL<\/a> season, four judges from Zero Tackle’s team (founder Matt Clements, writers Ethan Lee Chalk and Dan Nichols, and myself as editor) will assign votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis for every game during the season, with results to be published each week here on Zero Tackle.<\/p>\n

Without any further ado, here are the votes from Round 25.<\/p>\n

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Top Ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Queensland Cowboys fullback Scott Drinkwater has used a perfect game to surge into the top five of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-96086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96086","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=96086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}