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<\/a><\/p>\nTe Kura, who is 205cm tall, has previously expressed a desire to try his hand at American Football after watching former South Sydney-contracted Jordan Mailata become a superstar of the NFL and win the Super Bowl with Philadelphia last year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile another Broncos forward, Aublix Tawha, has fractured an eye socket while playing for Souths-Logan in the Hostplus Cup.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Te Kura runs during a Brisbane Broncos NRL training session.\u00a0Bradley Kanaris\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Tawha was concussed in the incident and went to hospital after the 36-12 loss to Tweed Heads Seagulls on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Broncos head of football Troy Thomson confirmed the bad news to AAP.<\/p>\n
“Aublix went to hospital for scans, which confirmed the fracture. He will get surgery on Monday,” Thomson said.<\/p>\n
Te Kura, 22, has had limited NRL opportunities with the Broncos due to the strength of the forward pack and injuries, playing just five games since making his debut in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Broncos put out a statement on Sunday morning and are supporting Te Kura’s attempt to gain an NFL contract.<\/p>\n
“The Broncos have approved Te Kura’s attendance at a six-week NFL training camp, which is currently underway,” the club said.<\/p>\n
“At the conclusion of the six-week period, Te Kura will either return to Broncos’ training or the club will extend his absence to facilitate further steps towards a possible NFL opportunity in the United States.”<\/p>\n
Mailata entered the NFL after gaining a spot in its international pathway program (IPP) in 2017.<\/p>\n
Current St George Illawarra centre Valentine Holmes also went through the IPP in 2019 and secured a position with the New York Jets before returning to the NRL with North Queensland the following season.<\/p>\n
Te Kura’s absence from training is the least of the Broncos’ worries ahead of Saturday night’s away clash with Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n
Fullback Reece Walsh (fractured eye socket) and half\/hooker Ben Hunt (MCL) are both out of action while captain Adam Reynolds (groin) is hopeful of playing.<\/p>\n
On top of the Tawha blow, the Broncos lost hooker Blake Mozer for six weeks after he broke his jaw in the 35-31 loss to North Queensland on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Lock Pat Carrigan was slapped with a two-week suspension, with an early guilty plea, for a high shot on Cowboys centre Tom Chester.<\/p>\n
On Sunday the Broncos were scouring vision of the incident to determine if they would fight the charge.<\/p>\n
The club is in the process of trying to get the category one concussion of hooker Cory Paix overturned from Friday night’s clash so he can play the Tigers.<\/p>\n
The Broncos believe Paix should have been given a category two. He passed his HIA test and coach Michael Maguire said he was right to go back on.<\/p>\n
“That is something we are going to have to review,” Maguire said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane giant Ben Te Kura has been given permission to take a break from NRL training to attend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-375825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}