{"id":480641,"date":"2026-03-17T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480641\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:28:08","slug":"huddersfield-giants-sign-three-leeds-rhinos-players-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480641\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants sign three Leeds Rhinos players on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Injury-hit Huddersfield Giants have signed three players on loan from Leeds Rhinos to bolster their depleted squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winger Riley Lumb, centre Ned McCormack and loose forward Presley Cassell will all be available for the Giants&#8217; Super League game at Bradford Bulls on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lumb, 21, scored 10 tries in 17 Super League games in 2025 for Leeds, while McCormack, also 21, and 19-year-old Cassell both have first-team experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They will help our head coach Luke Robinson in giving him options to pick from in a time where we have been blighted by injury, so that we are able to pick from a competitive squad to face Bradford,&#8221; said Giants director of rugby Andy Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield are bottom of Super League having lost all four games so far and last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c8d523zmvzro\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> that they had 16 first-team players unavailable.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury-hit Huddersfield Giants have signed three players on loan from Leeds Rhinos to bolster their depleted squad. Winger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480641","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\/480641","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=480641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}