{"id":607571,"date":"2026-05-28T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607571\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:48:09","slug":"caleb-aekins-bradford-bulls-full-back-extends-contract-to-end-of-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607571\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Aekins: Bradford Bulls full-back extends contract to end of next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford Bulls full-back Caleb Aekins has extended his contract through to the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand-born Aekins, 28, joined the Bulls on a one-year deal in November after leaving Featherstone and has appeared in all 14 of their games so far this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy with where Caleb&#8217;s at, he is somebody I&#8217;ve had my eye on for a little while as I&#8217;ve always thought he was a Super League player,&#8221; head coach Kurt Haggerty <a href=\"https:\/\/bradfordbulls.co.uk\/news\/caleb-aekins-pens-new-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He stepped into this environment and shown that he&#8217;s capable of being a very good Super League full-back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls full-back Caleb Aekins has extended his contract through to the end of next season. New Zealand-born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-607571","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\/607571","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=607571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}