{"id":628217,"date":"2026-06-08T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628217\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:13:09","slug":"sam-eseh-wigan-warriors-forward-to-join-bradford-bulls-in-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628217\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Eseh: Wigan Warriors forward to join Bradford Bulls in three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan Warriors forward Sam Eseh is to join Bradford Bulls from the 2027 Super League season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eseh has agreed a three-year contract with Bradford that will run until the end of the 2029 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old prop signed for Wigan in 2024 but has had loan stints with three other Super League clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he has featured in the matchday 17 in all but one of their league matches in 2026 and becomes Bradford&#8217;s first signing for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m thankful to Wigan and I have nothing but respect and great memories of the club and hope to make even more memories as the year passes by, but I am very excited to join Bradford,&#8221; Eseh <a href=\"https:\/\/bradfordbulls.co.uk\/news\/bulls-capture-eseh-jr-from-2027\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Bulls&#8217; website, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors forward Sam Eseh is to join Bradford Bulls from the 2027 Super League season. Eseh has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628217","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\/628217","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=628217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}