{"id":393190,"date":"2026-01-27T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393190\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:27:07","slug":"leeds-rhinos-cameron-smith-to-leave-at-end-of-super-league-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393190\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Rhinos: Cameron Smith to leave at end of Super League season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cameron Smith is set to leave Leeds Rhinos at the end of the 2026 Super League season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith, 27, made his debut for Leeds in 2016 and has gone on to play more than 150 games for the Rhinos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loose forward was captain up until this season with Ash Handley taking on that role and a testimonial was held for Smith at AMT Headingley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This was a big decision for me to make; I have spent my entire career at the Rhinos,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therhinos.co.uk\/article\/22825\/smith-set-to-leave-rhinos-at-end-of-2026-season\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smith told the club&#8217;s website., external<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was special last week to reflect on my decade at the club and it has been great to be back on the field after my injury last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am pleased to have my future decided and I have no distraction ahead of a big year with the Rhinos in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Smith is set to leave Leeds Rhinos at the end of the 2026 Super League season. Smith,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-393190","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\/393190","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=393190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}