{"id":359458,"date":"2026-01-08T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:59:08","slug":"alfie-edgell-leeds-rhinos-full-back-extends-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359458\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Edgell: Leeds Rhinos full-back extends contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds Rhinos have triggered an option in full-back Alfie Edgell&#8217;s contract to keep him at the club until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old came through the Rhinos&#8217; academy and made eight appearances last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will miss the start of the forthcoming campaign after picking up a thigh injury in the Boxing Day friendly with Wakefield which could sideline him for 16 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Alfie is Leeds through and through and that really matters to us. He&#8217;s a committed young player who has shown great resilience whenever he&#8217;s faced challenges,&#8221; sporting director Ian Blease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therhinos.co.uk\/article\/22777\/edgell-bright-about-future-despite-set-back\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds Rhinos have triggered an option in full-back Alfie Edgell&#8217;s contract to keep him at the club until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-359458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359458","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=359458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}