{"id":259006,"date":"2025-11-12T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259006\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:54:09","slug":"jacob-douglas-st-helens-sign-ex-wigan-warriors-winger-on-three-year-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259006\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Douglas: St Helens sign ex-Wigan Warriors winger on three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens have signed Jacob Douglas on a three-year deal after he left fellow Super League side Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old winger came through Wigan&#8217;s youth setup and went on to make eight senior appearances for the Cherry and Whites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to his time with Wigan, he also turned out for Whitehaven, Oldham, Bradford Bulls and Barrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know this is a great club with a lot of history, and it&#8217;s a big club with high expectations and ambitions,&#8221; Douglas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I spoke to the club, it just felt like the perfect place for me to grow at this point in my career, and hopefully be part of some exciting times ahead. I can&#8217;t wait to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Douglas made six appearances for Wigan in 2025 and scored a hat-trick of tries against Salford in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is Saints&#8217; second signing since boss Paul Rowley&#8217;s arrival at the club, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c2drn9g87ypo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Klemmer, who joined in October.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens have signed Jacob Douglas on a three-year deal after he left fellow Super League side Wigan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-259006","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\/259006","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=259006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}