{"id":263604,"date":"2025-11-15T03:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263604\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:30:11","slug":"chris-hankinson-leeds-rhinos-back-signs-new-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263604\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hankinson: Leeds Rhinos back signs new one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds Rhinos back Chris Hankinson has signed a one-year deal to remain with the Super League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old joined from Salford Red Devils in August and has made eight appearances for the Rhinos, scoring two tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Chris fitted in really well with our group in the closing months of last season. It can be tough to go into a new system with just a couple of weeks to go in the season but Chris showed a great attitude to get up to speed,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therhinos.co.uk\/article\/22625\/hankinson-signs-with-rhinos-for-2026\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Brad Arthur said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fact he is a senior, experienced player who is a reliable goal kicker makes him a valuable addition to our squad for next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hankinson is the latest player to commit their future to Leeds, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cvgk4wj8k8do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ash Handley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cvgk4wj8k8do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lachie Miller<\/a> signed new contracts following the conclusion of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having also signed forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cm2ed516qnlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremiah Mata&#8217;utia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cvgk0vg480zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan O&#8217;Neill<\/a> for next season, the Rhinos will also have Fiji international Maika Sivo back after he missed the entire 2025 campaign following a knee reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds Rhinos back Chris Hankinson has signed a one-year deal to remain with the Super League side. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-263604","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\/263604","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=263604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}