{"id":255541,"date":"2025-11-10T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255541\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:49:08","slug":"caleb-aekins-bradford-bulls-sign-featherstone-rovers-full-back-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255541\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Aekins: Bradford Bulls sign Featherstone Rovers full-back on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford Bulls have signed full-back Caleb Aekins on a one-year deal ahead of next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old has experience of both the NRL and the northern hemisphere, having made his debut for Penrith Panthers in 2018 as well as featuring for Canberra Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to join Leigh in 2022, helping them win promotion to Super League that season, while he has spent the past three campaigns with Featherstone Rovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am really happy to be joining the Bulls and I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradfordbulls.co.uk\/article\/3378\/aekins-joins-the-bulls\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously it is a very exciting time for everyone involved to be back in Super League and I can&#8217;t wait to be a part of such a special chapter in the history of this great club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting my team-mates and the fans, from my games against Bradford I know how passionate they are.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls have signed full-back Caleb Aekins on a one-year deal ahead of next season. The 27-year-old has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-255541","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\/255541","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=255541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}