{"id":255351,"date":"2025-11-10T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255351\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:33:10","slug":"oliver-wilson-wigan-warriors-sign-huddersfield-giants-prop-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255351\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Wilson: Wigan Warriors sign Huddersfield Giants prop for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Warriors have signed prop Oliver Wilson from fellow Super League side Huddersfield Giants ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old made his senior debut in 2018 for Bradford Bulls and went on to help them win promotion from League One that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson joined the Giants the following season and has made 114 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to be signing with Wigan. When I heard they had an interest, it was an easy decision for me to make,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would also like to put on record my sincere thanks to Huddersfield Giants and especially to the fans for the past six years, whose support was always unwavering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson has made one England appearance, coming in their mid-season international against France in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moves to Wigan having turned out 19 times for Huddersfield in 2025, scoring two tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a talented and determined player. We believe he&#8217;ll thrive in our environment and contribute strongly to the team moving forward,&#8221; boss Matt Peet added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors have signed prop Oliver Wilson from fellow Super League side Huddersfield Giants ahead of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}