Month: January 2026

MLR Player Moves Summary: January 19th, 2026 – January 25th, 2026

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James Deeley

Already almost a month into the new year, and the build up to the 2026 Major league Rugby season is flying past thanks in part to plenty of activity from almost every team. We have 1 complete roster (Anthem RC), with the other 5 remaining MLR teams steadily announcing their squads for a critical 2026 season which kicks off in just over 2 months! A jersey reveal must be coming any day now but until that day comes, we have plenty of Player Moves to talk about following another busy week around the league.

Welcome back to NARDB’s Player Moves Summary series! These weekly articles aim to keep fans up to date on every single player announcement to, from, and all around Major League Rugby ahead of the 2026 season. As always, let’s start with the summary graphic for Player Moves announced between January 19th and January 25th, 2026, followed by the re-signings section:

2-Page Summer Graphic of all Player Moves around MLR between January 19-15, 2026

Re-Signings

Old Glory DC kicked off the week’s Player Moves on 20th January when they confirmed the return of New York native Connor Buckley for his 3rd season with the team and 6th in Major League Rugby in 2026. The Iona College alum earned a Rudy Scholz nomination in 2020 but went undrafted that year, with the scrum-half instead signing with Rugby New York as a free agent for the 2021 MLR season. Buckley only earned 3 appearances off the bench in 2021, but became a regular option for the 9 jersey from 2022 onwards. He earned 8 starts and 13 appearances and completed over 50 tackles during New York’s Shield-winning 2022 season, and would improve across the board for the following season with 11 starts in 15 games in 2023, scoring his first 3 MLR tries with 188m gained and 66 tackles made which remain his career highs in both. After the Ironworkers withdrew from MLR in late 2023, Buckley signed with Old Glory DC for the 2024 season and has represented the Flags ever since. He has scored 8 of his 11 career tries in his 30 games for DC (21 starts), and has 61 Major League Rugby appearances in total, starting 40 times and gaining over 600m with 211 tackles completed in his career. With Ethan McVeigh now moving to the New England Free Jacks, Connor Buckley is almost definitely going to serve as Old Glory DC’s go-to scrum-half, backed up by John Lefevre.

Intra-league signings

Not content with the return of their regular scrum-half Connor Buckley, later that same day Old Glory DC announced that they had picked up former Miami Sharks hooker Kirby Myhill for his 3rd season in Major League Rugby in 2026. The capped Welsh international first signed with the Sharks ahead of their inaugural season in 2024, starting 6 of his 7 games in their debut year and scoring his first MLR try on 222m gained as the Sharks held their own. Myhill returned the following year and had a far better year almost across the board. He started 10 of his 15 appearances and scored 4 tries including 1 in the Miami Sharks’ first (and as it turned out, only) MLR playoff game in the Eastern Conference Semifinal against the New England Free Jacks. Although Myhill made less ground in 2025 than the previous season with 117m gained, he more than tripled his tackles completed total from 34 in 2024 to 114 in 2025. It’s a pleasant surprise to see Kirby Myhill remain in Major League Rugby after the Miami Sharks withdrew from the league earlier in the offseason. Old Glory DC will be hoping his leadership and experience is worth using a valuable foreign player spot, as the Welshman slots into the middle of the Flags front row as the first hooker announced by the team for 2026.

Old Glory DC were not the only MLR side to announce a new hooker for the 2026 season last week, however. Late on 20th January, the California Legion announced that they had added USA Eagle #466 Joe Taufete’e to their squad! The American Samoa-born forward has the distinction of being the only Men’s Player from a ‘Tier 2’ nation to ever be nominated for World Rugby Player of the Year while he was playing for the Worcester Warriors when the shortlist was announced for the 2019 award ultimately won by South Africa’s Pieter-Steph du Toit. Following his time in England and a stint in France, Joe Taufete’e entered Major League Rugby with the LA Giltinis in 2022, starting 7 of his 8 appearances and scoring 2 tries on just shy of 300m gained before the Giltinis were disqualified prior to the 2022 postseason. ‘Big Joe’ would sign on with the Houston SaberCats part-way through the following season, scoring double the number of tries as the previous season in fewer games (6 starts in 7 games), earning his first MLR postseason appearance as a replacement as the SaberCats fell to the Seattle Seawolves in the Western Conference Eliminator. During the 2023/24 offseason, the Houston SaberCats traded Joe Taufete’e to those Seattle Seawolves in a blockbuster deal that saw Seattle’s star fly-half AJ Alatimu head to Texas. Taufete’e would double his try total again, with a career high 8 tries scored in 14 games (12 starts) for the Seawolves including a try in the 2024 Championship Final as Seattle fell to the New England Free Jacks. The 2024 campaign was Taufete’e’s best in MLR to date, with over 400m gained and just shy of 100 tackles made, as well as 8 tries to take his career total to 14. He would increase this to 16 as a member of the NOLA Gold in 2025, mainly as the back-up hooker behind Ale Lopeti with 3 starts in 10 games. Across his MLR career so far, Joe Taufete’e has scored 16 tries in 39 MLR games (28 starts) acrodd 4 different teams with just under 1000m gained and just over 250 tackles completed. The USA Eagle was the 3rd player ever announced by the California Legion behind Christian Poidevin and Jason Damm, and marks his 5th Major League Rugby team in as many seasons.

@CalLegion via Twitter/X

Not done there, a couple of days later on the evening of 22nd January, the California Legion also announced that they had signed California native Ryan James for the 2026 MLR season. A native of San Diego, CA, James first entered Major League Rugby with the Colorado Raptors, earning his pro debut off the bench in a single appearance before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the league down after only 5 games rounds. He joined the LA Giltinis for their inaugural season in 2021, scoring 5 tries and starting 6 of his 15 appearances including coming off the bench in the 2021 Championship Final to help the Giltinis secure the Shield. James represented the Giltinis in 25 games over 2 seasons from 2021-22, gaining over 900m total and scoring 6 tries in 12 starts. Following their disqualification and subsequent folding, Ryan James returned to Colorado and spent 2023 representing the rebranded American Raptors in the Super Rugby Americas competition, before returning to California and signing with his hometown MLR team, the San Diego Legion. He started all 27 of his appearances with the San Diego Legion between 2024-25, recording over 800m gained and 80 tackles completed in each of his 2 seasons there and scoring 6 tries. To date in MLR, Ryan James has 12 tries on over 2,500m gained in 53 appearances (39 starts) over 5 seasons, with just shy of 250 tackles completed as a winger. With the California Legion, James joins fellow former San Diego and Giltinis player Christian Poidevin under a familiar ex-Giltinis/Legion coaching staff of Stephen Hoiles, Dave Dennis (both formerly Giltinis), and Dave Clancy (former SD Legion).

The Chicago Hounds began their Player Moves for the week on January 21st when they announced that they had signed Brazilian international front rower and Major League Rugby Champion Wilton Rebolo for their 2026 campaign. Rebolo earned his test debut for Brazil against Germany back in 2015, and was still a regular in the Brazilian pack for their autumn internationals in 2025. The São Jose dos Campos native entered Major League Rugby with the Austin Gilgronis in 2020, featuring for the AGs in the pre-season but suffering a knee injury that ruled him out of the COVID-shortened year. He returned the following year with Rugby New York, becoming the first Brazilian to play in the league and earning 12 appearances (2 starts) as well as scoring his first MLR try. Rebolo returned with the Ironworkers in 2022 and enjoyed his best season to date, starting 5 of his 15 appearances and adding a 2nd career try on over 150m gained with 89 tackles made (both career highs) to help the Ironworkers advance to the 2022 Championship Final and secure their first Shield over the Seattle Seawolves. Rebolo started all 3 of the Ironworkers’ playoff games en-route. Following the MLR season, Rebolo was picked up by the Western Force in Super Rugby, playing with Northland in New Zealand’s National Provincial Championship (NPC) in the fall of 2022 before earning his Super Rugby Debut for the Force in Round 15 of the 2023 season, becoming the first Brazilian player to ever feature in Super Rugby. Rebolo would return to MLR mid-way through the 2024 season, signing with Rugby FC LA and starting 2 of his 7 appearances during their inaugural season and during the offseason, RFCLA traded Rebolo to the Houston SaberCats in exchange for the 8th overall Draft Pick in 2025 (used to select Ieremia Ieremia). Rebolo would score his 3rd MLR try for the SaberCats in one of his 10 appearances for Houston, also appearing off the bench in all 3 of their playoff games that season as they advanced to the 2025 Championship Final, where they fell to the New England Free Jacks. Through his 4-season MLR career so far, Wilton Rebolo has started 9 of his 44 appearances, scoring 3 tries and gaining exactly 350m gained, with over 200 tackles completed, and is both a MLR Champion (2022) and MLR Runner-Up (2025). Primarily a prop but also capable of playing hooker, the 30yo will be joining a highly experienced Chicago Hounds front row, with the likes of Charlie Abel, Oti Pifeleti, and Jake Turnbull all competing for gametime.

@chicagohoundsrugby via instagram

The very next day the Chicago Hounds announced that they had also signed a former Miami Sharks forward for their 2026 squad: Capped USA Eagle Tomas Casares! The Argentina-born back row attended Thomas More University and was drafted 17th overall in the 2022 MLR Draft by the New England Free Jacks. He never represented the Free Jacks at MLR level however, and was selected by the Miami Sharks during the 2023 expansion draft ahead of their debut 2024 season. Casares earned his pro debut for the Sharks in 2024, started 6 of his 8 appearances during their inaugural season and scoring 2 tries including a game-winning 7-pointer against his former side, the New England Free Jacks. Following an impressive season with the Sharks, Casares was included in the USA National Team squad for their 2024 Autumn tests, where he earned his international debut as Eagle #583 in a hard fought 21-17 victory over Portugal. Tomas Casares returned for a second MLR season with the Sharks in 2025, earning another 14 appearances and doubling his starts from 6 in 2024 to 12 in 2025, recording an impressive 139 tackles which very nearly doubled his total from 2024 as well, passing 200 tackles made in his career. Casares now heads to Chicago following the withdrawal of the Miami Sharks from MLR, and will likely serve as a depth role in a stacked Hounds back row, playing behind the likes of Maclean Jones, Lucas Rumball, and Mason Flesch.

Not wanting to miss out in the intra-league signing spree, the Seattle Seawolves announced the addition of test capped Canadian lock Callum Botchar for their 2026 campaign. Born in Ontario but raised in British Columbia, Botchar attended the University of British Columbia playing with the UBC Thunderbirds as well as the Pacific Pride and Canada U20 side. He also represented the Toronto Wolfpack Rugby League side in their 2021 Canada Cup exhibition game against the DC Cavalry. Botchar got a chance to represent his country at test level before even entering Major League Rugby when he was selected for the Canada squad for their 2022 November tests, earning a pair of caps against the Netherlands and Belgium. Botchar headed to New Zealand for 2023, playing with the New Plymouth Old Boys in the Taranaki Premier Division, and was signed by the Toronto Arrows for the 2024 season before their unfortunate withdrawal following the passing of their talismanic owner, Bill Webb. Botchar was selected by the NOLA Gold in the subsequent dispersal draft, and finally earned his Major League Rugby debut for the Gold in 2024. He started 9 of his 16 appearances for the Gold, featuring in all but 1 game including the first (and as it turned out, only) playoff game in franchise history against the Chicago Hounds. He scored 2 tries in his debut season, gaining 167m and completing over 100 tackles on defence, and was named as the 2024 NOLA Gold Shawn Riley Heart of Gold award recipient, honoring MLR and NOLA Gold alum, Shawn Riley. Botchar returned for a second season with the Gold in 2025, starting 6 of his 8 appearances and passing 200m gained in his 23 game (12 start) MLR career so far. He now heads back towards his home in Vancouver to join his (sort of) local MLR team, the Seattle Seawolves following the withdrawal of the NOLA Gold. Botchar will join Seawolves veteran Rhyno Herbst and fellow new acquisition Harrison Mataele in the middle of the Seattle pack.

@seawolvesrugby via Instagram

New Additions

On January 22nd, Old Glory DC announced that they had added the 2nd Round draft pick from 2024 to their squad for the 2026 Major League Rugby campaign, Aidan Ridgway! A native of Johannesburg, the South African scrum-half attended Arkansas State University from 2020-2024, representing the Red Wolves throughout. Following his graduation in 2024, Ridgway declared for the 2024 MLR Collegiate Draft and was chosen as one of the top 50 prospects to attend the MLR Rising combine to give MLR sides a better look at potential draftees. This clearly paid off for Ridgway as he was drafted in 15th overall in the 2024 Draft by Old Glory DC. Following his selection, he spent the fall of 2024 in the Old Glory DC pathway, playing with the Young Glory academy side as well as the Washington Irish club side, but did not feature at MLR level for the Flags in 2025. Instead, the not quite US-eligible Ridgway returned to Arkansas State University for another year with the Red Wolves. Now fully US-eligible on residency, Ridgway returns to the Flags and is hoping to make his pro debut in 2026. He will have to fight for that though, with Connor Buckley and John Lefevre likely both ahead of him for the 9 jersey.

Later that day, the Chicago Hounds added a new face of their own when they announced that they had promoted Academy product Mathis Demandolx to their MLR squad for the 2026 season. Also a scrum-half, Washington State native Demandolx played with the Rhino Rugby Academy in California, attending in 2021 and again in the World Tens Series in 2024, sandwiching a stint at Central Washington University during the 2022/23 season. After moving to Chicago and playing with the Lions in the Midwest Rugby Premiership, Demandolx headed to New Zealand and spent the summer of 2025 playing premier grade rugby with Whakarewarewa Rugby Community Sports Club in the Bay of Plenty, hleping them to the 2025 Bay Wide Championship title, the club’s first in 19 years. Following this time in New Zealand, Demandolx returned to the Chicago Lions with a taste for Championships, and helped the club to the 2025 Midwest Rugby Premiership title while also proving a standout with the Chicago Hounds Fall Performance squad. At just 22, Mathis Demandolx serves as proof that pathways and academy systems work, and now the young scrum-half will be playing behind regular USA National Team starter, Ruben de Haas.

@chicagohoundsrugby via Instagram

Also on a busy 23rd January, the California Legion announced that they had signed their first ever MLR Collegiate Draft pick to a Major League Rugby contract for the 2026 season! Selected in the first round using the 5th overall pick out of Central Washington University, US-eligible Australian winger Oscar Treacy joins the Legion after a stellar college career with the Wildcats. Born and raised in Melbourne, Treacy attended CWU from 2021-2025, during which time he was named a 2x CRAA All-American represented both the USA Falcons and USA U23s at Sevens levels. To cap off his college career, Treacy was named as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Rudy Scholz award, recognising the top collegiate rugby player in the US each year. Oscar Treacy is the 5th player announced by the California Legion for their inaugural 2026 season and of those 5, he is already the 2nd winger after Ryan James, who is covered earlier in this article. There has already been a lot of buzz around Treacy as a player, so Legion fans should be excited about him representing the state of California in 2026.

Wrapping Up

It seems like Major League Rugby teams got last week’s Player Moves announced just before much of the USA and Canada was blanketed by a dump of snow, resulting in plenty of moves at the start of the week but a quiet weekend just gone. It was still a busy week for intra-league transfers, with the Chicago Hounds keeping busy and the California Legion really getting rolling on their Player Moves. A busy week for Draftees and academy standouts as well, earning their first pro rugby contracts and congratulations to them!

Thank you very much for reading this week’s Player Moves Article! Another 2-page summary last week shows that Player Moves are experiencing a bit of a second wind to start off 2026, with no doubt more on the way this week. Be sure to check back here next Monday (2nd February) to find out more about all of this week’s news. If there are any Player Moves that you notice, or just to say what you think about these articles or the site, you can let NARDB/James know on social media: @MLRStats on Instagram/Threads, JamDelay & @NARugbyDB on Twitter/X, and @JamDelay & @NARDB on Bluesky! Alternatively, you can reach out to NARDB via the ‘Contact’ tab on this site.

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MLR Player Moves Summary: January 11th, 2026 – January 18th, 2026

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James Deeley

In previous years, by mid-January training camps would have opened and fans would be being bombarded with photos of players in camp as the hype would be really ramping up towards the season kicking off! However, 2026 is not a ‘normal’ season as fans of Major League Rugby have come to know it. we are still roughly two and a half months away from the season kicking off, but thankfully the California Legion have finally started to announce their Player Moves for the 2026 season, which should give NARDB plenty to talk about over the next few weeks!

There’s been an increase in Player Moves from around the league compared to the last few weeks which means there’s plenty of news to talk about: Welcome back to NARDB’s Player Moves Summary series! These weekly articles aim to keep fans up to date on every single player announcement to, from, and all around Major League Rugby ahead of the 2026 season. As always, let’s start with the summary graphic for Player Moves announced between January 12th and January 18th, 2026, followed by the re-signings section:

2-Page Summary Graphic for all Player Moves around MLR between January 11-18, 2026!

Re-signings

The Seattle Seawolves got last week’s Player Moves started on January 12th, when they announced the return of South African prop Dewald Donald for his 5th season with the team in 2026. The former Springboks U19 man and Blue Bulls Currie Cup player first entered Major League Rugby with the Seawolves in 2022, representing Seattle in each of the 4 seasons since then. Donald has earned 22 appearances to date including a high of 8 in the 2024 season when the Seattle Seawolves finished as MLR Runners-Up, a year where Donald also earned a career high 4 starts that year. the 6’1, 270lbs front row has started 7 of his appearances for the Seawolves, gaining over 200m (not bad at all as a depth prop) and completing 86 tackles in his career so far. Donald will compete with fellow returning Seawolf Mason Pedersen and new signing Ezekiel Lindenmuth in the Seattle Seawolves front row, with no doubt more props to be announced by the team in the coming weeks.

@seawolvesrugby via Instagram

A few days after the re-signing of Dewald Donald, the Seattle Seawolves confirmed their 2nd returnee of the week for the 2026 campaign, MLR Draftee Calvin Liulamaga! the Rudy Scholz nominee and 2x All-American was selected 11th overall by the Seattle Seawolves, his local team, in the 2024 MLR Draft out of Central Washington University. He spent the 2025 season with the team and although he did not earn his pro debut, he was named the 2025 Seattle Seawolves Young Player of the Year. Calvin Liulamaga will be hoping to earn his pro debut during the 2026 season, joining the likes of Dan Kriel and Mark Bennett in the Seawolves midfield.

Joining Seattle with a re-signing last week were the Chicago Hounds, who coincidentally announced the return of a former Seattle Seawolf on 13th January 2026. 6’3, 275lbs tighthead prop Koby Baker will return for his 2nd season with the Hounds in 2026, and 3rd in Major League Rugby after representing the Seawolves in 2024. Baker represented the American Raptors during the 2024 Super Rugby Americas season before being brought in as injury cover by the Seawolves towards the end of their 2024 campaign. He earned 5 appearances off the bench for the Seattle Seawolves that year, 3 of which were playoff appearances including the 2024 Championship Final against the New England Free Jacks, finishing his debut MLR season as a runner-up. Following the season, Baker joined the Chicago Hounds academy team during the fall of 2024 and has remained with the team since, earning an MLR deal and 2 additional appearances for the Hounds in their 2025 campaign, before a stand-out fall with Chicago’s Autumn Performance Squad against the likes of the Midwest Thunderbirds and Canada’s Pacific Pride in 2025.

Intra-League Signings

In a busy week for the team, the Seattle Seawolves also announced the addition of former Brumbies U19 hooker Liki Chan-Tung to their 2026 roster on 13th January 2026 after the 24yo spent the 2025 season with the San Diego Legion. Prior to entering MLR, Chan-Tung was playing in the ACTRU Premier Division with the Gungahlin Eagles, winning the John I Dent cup with the team in 2023. Having been raised in Australia but born in Hawaii, he is US-eligible and therefore a valuable domestic player in Major League Rugby, found by the San Diego Legion who snapped him up for their 2025 campaign. Chan-Tung earned his pro debut and 3 appearances off the bench for the Legion during his first season in North America, gaining 29m and completing 14 tackles, and was an unused reserve in an additional two matches as the Legion would miss out on the post-season by a single point. With San Diego merging with RFCLA to create the California Legion, Liki Chan-Tung heads north and joins the Seattle Seawolves, where he will compete for the 2 jersey with Canadian international Dewald Kotze and recently capped USA Eagle Sean McNulty in 2026.

On January 15th, the Chicago Hounds announced their first intra-league signing of the week, adding 2022 Major League Rugby Draftee Jason Tidwell to their squad for the 2026 season! Selected late in the 2022 Draft at 36th overall by the Dallas Jackals out of Texas A&M University, Tidwell spent his first two years in the league with the Jackals, earning his pro debut and 3 appearances off the bench in his rookie season, before enjoying a breakout year in 2024. He started 7 of his 16 games for the Jackals that season, scoring 3 tries and gaining over 600m to help the Jackals qualify for the postseason for the first (and only) time in team history, advancing to the Western Conference Final where they took the Seattle Seawolves right to the edge. Following the withdrawal of the Dallas Jackals from MLR in the offseason, Tidwell moved to Charlotte and signed with Anthem RC for the 2025 season, representing the Rising Stars in 10 games that year, starting every time and scoring another 3 tries with 324m gained to take his career total to 6 tries and over 900m gained in 29 MLR games (17 starts)! Tidwell will have plenty of competition for game time in Chicago, joining USA Eagle Noah Brown and MLR Rookie of the Year Peyton Wall, as well as Canadian international Brock Webster and Chilean international Santiago Videla at the back. Tidwell will be hoping that Videla plays fly-half more often than not, and Webster fills the 15 shirt.

@chicagohoundsrugby via Instagram

To wrap up the intra-league moves from last week, on 18th January Old Glory DC announced the addition of NOLA Gold veteran Ross Depperschmidt for his 8th Major League Rugby season in 2026! Born and raised just outside of Dallas, TX, Depperschmidt grew up playing football and baseball, before picking up rugby at the University of Alabama, graduating in 2018. He signed with the NOLA Gold ahead of the 2019 MLR season following an open tryout, but would have to wait until 2020 to earn his pro debut. Depperschmidt earned 2 appearances (1 start) in 2020 before the COVID 19 pandemic shut the season down after 5 rounds. He returned in 2021 and earned 2 starts in 3 appearances before earning a regular roster spot the following year. In 2022, Depperschmidt started more games (6) than he had appeared in the previous 2 seasons combined (5). He earned 12 appearances during the 2022 season and scored his first 2 tries with 297m gained which remains his career high. Over the 3 seasons between 2022-2024, Depperschmidt scored 5 tries and earned 41 appearances (23 starts) for NOLA, recording over 200m gained each year and 164 tackles including a high of 68 in 2024. Over 7 seasons with the Gold, he has earned 49 MLR appearances asnd passed 200 tackles made in 2025, also sitting just under 1000m gained in his career (930m). Depperschmidt will represent a MLR team other than NOLA for the first time in his career in 2026, where he is almost guaranteed to earn his 50th MLR appearance. He joins a healthy NOLA Gold alumni contingent at Old Glory, comprised of Aidan King, Paul Mullen, Bart Vermeulen, and Harley Wheeler.

New Additions

This next Player Move created a bit of a headache. After months of silence, the California Legion finally started announcing their 2026 roster on 14th January, starting with a player from the San Diego Legion. Given that the California Legion is a new entity, is this an intra-league signing? Given that the branding, moniker, and likely fanbase is going to be largely the same as San Diego, is this a re-signing? Because NARDB is treating the California Legion as a new Major League Rugby franchise, and some elements will be new to Rugby FC LA and San Diego Legion players, any and all Legion signings for 2026 will fall into the ‘New Additions’ section. Moving to the player himself, the first player ever announced by the California Legion was USA Eagle #593, Christian Poidevin!

A 2021 Champion with the LA Giltinis, Australian back rower Poidevin (the son of Wallabies legend Simon Poidevin) has now represented 3 Californian Major League Rugby franchises across 6 seasons including 2026, and was even selected by the precursor team to Rugby FC LA, Rugby ATL in the Giltinis expansion draft. Poidevin has scored 18 tries in his 59 game MLR career so far, including 8 in 14 games (8 starts) during the 2025 campaign with the San Diego Legion, where he recorded his 4th 100+ tackle season and 3rd with 150+ tackles, recording 170 that year to take his career total to 695, which is an average of 11.8 per game. Not just a solid defender, Poidevin passed 1,500m gained in possession during the 2025 season, and recorded a career high of 513m gained in 2023, his first season in San Diego. Although born and raised in Australia, Poidevin qualifies for the USA thanks to his mother who was born in Chicago, and he earned his test debut for the USA as Eagle #593 against England in July 2025. With 6 weeks until the Legion kick off the 2026 MLR season against Anthem RC on 28th March, fans can expect roughly a player a day from the California Legion!

@legion.rugby on Instagram

Not finished there, on 16th January the California Legion also announced the addition of Major League Rugby veteran and USA Men’s National Team Captain Jason Damm for the 2026 season! Born in Georgia, Damm first entered MLR with the Glendale Raptors in the fall of 2018, earning his pro debut for the team during the 2019 campaign, with 3 appearances and 1 start. Following the 2019 season, Jason Damm returned home to Georgia and signed with the Rugby ATL expansion team, where he would spend 4 seasons. He earned 4 appearances for the RATLers before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the season down after 5 rounds, but the following year is when Damm really began to stand out. During the 2021 campaign, Jason Damm scored 5 tries on 865m gained in 15 games (12 starts), completing 165 tackles to earn a 2021 All-MLR 2nd XV selection and help Rugby ATL advance to the Championship Final, where they fell to the LA Giltinis. In total, Damm scored 8 tries in 30 games (21 starts) with Rugby ATL between 2020-2023, and moved with the team following their relocation to Los Angeles under new ownership. Damm captained the now-rebranded Rugby FC LA from 2024-2025, and proved a standout. He earned 31 appearances (29 starts) for the team, scoring 7 tries in each season and recording well over 150 tackles completed, including a career high of 199 tackles in 2025, helping RFCLA to earn their first (and only) MLR playoff appearance. For his efforts, Jason Damm was named to the All-MLR 2nd XV for the second time in 2025. He joins Christian Poidevin in an already formidable looking Legion pack.

The California Legion weren’t the only team to announce a new addition last week, however. On 15th January Old Glory DC announced that they had added their 1st Round pick from the 2025 Draft to their Major League Rugby roster for the 2026 campaign. Selected 4th overall in 2025, Texan Prop Connor Devos attended Lindenwood University from 2021-2025, where he was named a Collegiate All-American in 2024 and helped the Lions to finish in the NCR D1A Final Four 3 times during his time there. The promising 22yo front rower has already represented the USA at both U20 and U23 levels, touring South Africa with the latter in the summer of 2025. Following his successful draft, Devos spent the fall of 2025 with the St. Louis Bombers, earning his D1 Club debut in October. New to the professional game, Devos will likely serve as a depth tighthead option for Old Glory DC in 2026 behind MLR veteran Paul Mullen and Patrick Beattie, with Canadian international (and fellow draftee) Cali Martinez able to play both sides of the scrum. Devos is the 7th draftee from the 2025 MLR Draft Class confirmed for 2026.

Departures

Right at the start of the week there was news from Japan about the signing of a 2025 Major League Rugby standout, as Japan Rugby League One – Division 1 side the Yokohama Canon Eagles announced the addition of former Utah Warriors hooker Liam Coltman for their 2025/26 campaign. The soon-to-be 36yo capped All Black only spent 1 season in Major League Rugby, but made a huge impact representing the Utah Warriors, who finished as the top team during the regular season thanks in part to Coltman’s efforts. He started 14 of his 16 appearances for the Warriors including both of their playoff games during the 2025 postseason, completing 172 tackles in total, more than any other front row player during the 2025 season (next closest was Seattle Seawolves’ Cam Orr on 161). Although he did not score in the playoffs, Coltman recorded 10 tries in his 14 regular season games in 2025, and was one of four Utah Warriors named to the All-MLR First XV for his performance that year. Unfortunately, with the withdrawal of the Utah Warriors from Major League Rugby, and the league’s shift away from foreign players, fans will not see him back in MLR in 2026. NARDB wishes Liam Coltman the very best of luck playing in Japan!

On 15th January 2026, the reigning Super Rugby Americas Champions Peñarol announced their squad for the 2026 SRA season. On it was former Miami Sharks stand-out Manu Ardao, who previously represented Peñarol when they won the 2023 SRA title, before heading north to join the Sharks. Back rower Ardao joined the Sharks for their inaugural MLR season in 2024 having just represented Uruguay at the 2021 Rugby World Cup in France, and was a regular in the starting XV in Florida. He scored 10 tries in 26 games as a Shark (25 starts), recording over 1,100m gained in possession and 273 tackles completed including a high of 155 during in 14 games during the 2025 season, helping the Sharks qualify for their first (and only) MLR playoff appearance. That year, he was the only Miami Sharks player to earn All-MLR honours, earning a First XV selection for a superb season in which he led the entire league with a monstrous 27 turnovers won at the breakdown. Manu Ardao now returns to his native Uruguay and joins fellow MLR alumni and 2025 Peñarol Captain Manu Diana (TOR, 2020-21).

With Major League Rugby re-defining their definition of ‘Domestic Player’ to no longer include Canadians for the 2026 season and beyond, the 47 Canadians who contributed to the success of Major League Rugby teams in 2025 will fall dramatically, and the amount of Canadian players confirmed for 2026 is currently in single figures. As a result, many Canadian players are looking elsewhere to play in 2026. The Canadian Men’s Sevens team announced their roster for the HSBC SVNS D3 tournament in Dubai his month, which included a pair of 2025 MLR-ers that will not be returning to the league in 2026. Josiah Morra returns to the Sevens setup after last featuring at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s in 2024, following a switch to the XVs game and signing with the New England Free Jacks for the 2025 season. Morra earned 1 appearance with New England before being loaned to the Miami Sharks to give him more game time, where he scored 2 tries and started 8 of his 9 games with Miami and gained over 300m in his 10 MLR appearances that season. Returning to the Sevens team alongside Morra for the first time since the 2024 RAN 7s is MLR Draftee Jack Shaw. The Bishop’s University graduate was selected 22nd Overall in the 2022 MLR Draft by Rugby ATL and spent 3 seasons in the league, representing the RATLers in 2023 before following the team to LA when they relocated under new ownership and became Rugby FC LA. Shaw scored 9 tries in 27 MLR games, starting 24 times and recording over 1,200m gained with 124 tackles completed in his MLR career. Morra and Shaw join fellow MLR alumni Lockie Kratz (NOLA, 2021) and Brenden Black (TOR, 2023) in the Canadian Sevens squad. While it is a shame that fans will not get the chance to see these players in Major League Rugby this season, it is great to see them still representing the Maple Leaf, and very best of luck to them and the entire Canada squad!

@rugbycanada via Instagram

Retirements

As well as the above moves, last week also saw the retirement of perhaps one of Major League Rugby’s most underrated players after 8 seasons in North America’s top flight and over 75 games played across 3 different teams. On 12th January, Seattle Seawolves flanker Devin Short announced his retirement on social media. The Nevada native was a Major League Rugby original, having featured in every season of the competition between 2018-2025. Short’s pro career began with the San Diego Legion in MLR’s inaugural 2018 season where he featured in all but 1 of the Legion’s games, starting all of his appearances and putting in a full 80 minutes during their semi-final defeat to the Seattle Seawolves. He would represent the Legion for 3 years between 2018-2020, scoring 3 tries and starting 19 of his 23 appearances for San Diego despite missing a chunk of the 2019 season with injury. He gained well over 500m in possession and averaging 8 tackles per game for 184 completed in total. Short was tipped for an Eagles cap in the near future but this was ruined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down play after only 5 rounds of the MLR season. When the league returned in 2021, Devin Short had moved on from the Legion and signed with the NOLA Gold where he played for another 3 seasons. For the Gold, Short started 24 of his 31 appearances between 2021-2023, gaining over 1,300m and completing 282 tackles. Most of this was achieved during a stand-out 2022 season, where Devin Short recorded career highs across the board as well as becoming the youngest player in MLR history at the time to reach 50 appearances, the 21st player to do so in league history. He started all 15 of his appearances for the Gold that season, completing 195 tackles and scoring 3 tries on 903m gained, almost tripling his previous career high of 325m set the previous year.

Just as it appeared that Devin Short had arrived on the scene, his 2023 season was hugely affected by injury, and he started 3 of his 4 appearances that year. Following the 2023 season, the NOLA Gold traded the flanker to the Seattle Seawolves in exchange for the 11th overall pick in the 2023 MLR Draft (used to select Gabriel Mahu’inga). Things would get worse for Short before they got better. An autoimmune disease ruled him out for roughly half of the 2024 season, but he made his Seawolves debut in Round 12 and started all 6 of his appearances in the back half of the season including twice in the playoffs, starting both the Western Conference Semifinal against the San Diego Legion, and the 2024 Championship Game against the New England Free Jacks. Despite health issues limiting his game time, Short still recorded 72 tackles and over 225m gained during the 2024 season, and returned to the Seawolves for 2025, where he enjoyed a resurgence. In what would prove to be his final season in Major League Rugby, Devin Short appeared in all 17 of the Seawolves’ games, setting a career high. He started 8 times and recorded just shy of 100 tackles, scoring 2 tries. Across his 8 seasons in MLR, Devin Short recorded 636 tackles completed and gained well over 2,000m in possession, scoring 8 tries and 44pts in in total in 77 games, starting 57 times. Devin Short is one of the great ‘what ifs’ of American rugby. He is a proven stand-out in the back row when healthy, but health issues and a pandemic prevented him from putting in consistent performances year-in, year-out. These factors meant that Short became one of the more underrated players in Major League Rugby, but when he was in the lineup you knew that he would perform. Devin Short is arguably one of the best players to never represent the USA at test level, and we wish him the very best in retirement.

@devinshort_ via Instagram

Wrapping Up

Following 2 weeks of relative calm regarding Player Moves around Major League Rugby, it seems that things have started to pick up again! Anthem RC announced their full roster and the Chicago Hounds and New England Free Jacks coming to an end of their announcements, while Old Glory DC and the Seattle Seawolves continue announcing at a steady pace, and the California Legion are getting started at long last! There should be plenty of Player Moves to discuss until training camps open in early February, and maybe even some more after that.

Thank you very much for reading this week’s Player Moves Article! As mentioned, it seems like things are picking up again on the Player Moves front so be sure to come back next Monday to find out more about all of this week’s news. If there are any Player Moves that you notice, or just to say what you think about these articles or the site, you can let NARDB/James know on social media: @MLRStats on Instagram/Thread, JamDelay & @NARugbyDB on Twitter/X, and @JamDelay & @NARDB on Bluesky! Alternatively, you can reach out to NARDB via the ‘Contact’ tab on this site.

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MLR Player Moves Summary: January 5th, 2026 – January 11th, 2026

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James Deeley

As the holidays disappear in the rearview mirror and the cold of the winter lingers on, hopefully the January blues can be staved off with the prospect of professional rugby in the not-too-distant future! The 2026 Six Nations is under a month away and as that finishes, the Major League Rugby season will kick off! MLR teams are putting the finishing touches on their rosters, which means there are still a handful of Player Moves to discuss from a quieter than usual week.

Welcome back to NARDB’s Player Moves Summary series! As regular readers already know, these weekly articles aim to keep fans up to date on every single player announcement to, from, and all around Major League Rugby ahead of the 2026 season. Although the California Legion remain silent (on almost everything), other teams are coming to the end of their announcements with jerseys sure to be announced in the near future as well. As always, let’s start with the summary graphic for Player Moves announced between January 5th and January 11th, 2026, followed by the re-signings section:

Summary Graphic of Player Moves around Major League Rugby between January 5 – 11, 2026!

Re-Signings

To kick off the week’s Player Moves, on 5th January the Chicago Hounds announced the return of their 2nd Round Draft Pick from 2024, Jake Kinneeveauk, for his 2nd Major League Rugby campaign in 2026. Selected 22nd overall by the Hounds in the 2024 MLR Draft out of the University of Utah, Alaskan back rower Kinneeveauk played with the Hounds academy side after being drafted and earned himself a full MLR contract with the team for the 2025 season. He earned his pro debut off the bench in the Chicago Hounds‘ Rd 10 clash with the Seattle Seawolves which was his only action at MLR level that season. He spent the fall of 2025 playing with the Chicago Hounds’ Autumn Performance Squad, captaining the side in their 33-57 win over the Pacific Pride in Vancouver. Kinneeveauk may find it tough to get consistent game time in 2026 among a very strong Chicago Hounds back row, but extra depth can’t hurt and nor can another taste of training, living, and playing in a professional environment.

The following day, the Seattle Seawolves announced the return of one of their stalwarts in the 2nd row. South African lock Rhyno Herbst will be returning for his 6th season with the team in 2026. Now eligible to play for the USA through residency, Herbst has started 72 of his 73 Major League Rugby appearances for the Seawolves since entering the league in 2021. Although he only has 6 tries to his name, 2x MLR Runner-Up Herbst has gained over 1,850m to date including a career high of 518m back in 2022. In 2025, Herbst recorded his 4th 100+ tackle season with 143 tackles made in 15 games, tacking his career total to 643 and putting him 3rd in Seattle Seawolves team history, behind only JP Smith and Riekert Hattingh (both also from South African, incidentally). His 143 tackles last season wasn’t far off of his career high of 165 set in 2024 which (in part) earned him an All-MLR First XV selection that season as the Seawolves advanced to the Championship Final, where they fell to the New England Free Jacks in San Diego. Herbst is the 2nd lock announced by the Seawolves for their 2026 campaign, joining new addition Harrison Mataele in the 2nd row.

@seawolvesrugby via Instagram

Old Glory DC joined in with a re-signing of their own on January 9th, confirming the return of Virginia native John Lefevre for his 4th season with the team in 2026. Lefevre joined Old Glory DC ahead of the 2022 season, and represented the Flags in 17 games across 2 seasons before he headed to Colorado to join the American Raptors for their 2024 Super Rugby Americas season. Following the news that the Raptors were ceasing operations, Lefevre returned to his hometown Major League Rugby side, Old Glory DC, for the 2025 campaign where he earned a further two appearances. In total, John Lefevre has scored 2 tries in his 19 MLR appearances for Old Glory DC, gaining over 200m in possession and completing just shy of 50 tackles in his career. Lefevre is the first scrum-half announced by DC for their 2026 season and he might enjoy some increased game time with USA Eagle Ethan McVeigh joining the New England Free Jacks this year.

Intra-League Signings

Not stopping at the re-signing of Jake Kinneeveauk, on 7th January the Chicago Hounds announced the addition of Argentinian forward Tomás Bekerman to their roster for the 2026 Major League Rugby season. This will be Bekerman’s 3rd season in the league, joining the Hounds from the now-defunct Miami Sharks. Born in Miami and therefore classed as a domestic player in Major League Rugby eligible to represent the Eagles, Bekerman first entered the league in 2024 with the Dallas Jackals, although he was signed with the Jackals for the 2023 season, but played no part. He scored 5 tries in his debut MLR season, earning 15 appearances (2 starts) and gaining just shy of 300m in possession primarily as a reserve to help the Jackals earn a postseason spot in 2024, featuring in both playoff games for Dallas as they advanced to the Western Conference Final. Following the withdrawal of the Jackals, Bekerman was selected by Anthem RC in the dispersal draft, who promptly traded him to the Miami Sharks for the 2025 season. He scored another 4 tries for the Sharks in 2025, earning 16 appearances and completing 50+ tackles for the first time in his MLR career to help the team advance to the postseason, with Bekerman once again appearing in their playoff lineup for the Eastern Conference Semi-final. In total, Bekerman as 9 tries in 30 MLR games (5 starts) with over 400m gained and 99 tackles made. His domestic status coupled with his ability to play both hooker or flanker will prove valuable to the Chicago Hounds during a MLR season with smaller than normal rosters.

Wrapping-Up

Much like the first week of 2026, last week continued to be far quieter than the weeks leading up to the New Year. Just the 4 Player Moves around Major League Rugby, made up of a re-signing each for Old Glory DC, Seattle Seawolves, and the Chicago Hounds, with the Hounds also treating us to an intra-league signing from the Miami Sharks, adding versatile US-eligible forward Tomás Bekerman. Although not covered here, Anthem RC became the first team to reveal their full 32-man roster for the 2026 MLR season, and it seems like at least New England and Chicago might not be too far behind doing the same thing!

Thank you very much for reading this week’s Player Moves Article! As we all get back into the swing of daily life, player news around the 2026 Major League Rugby season may be winding down, but news around the League is only going to ramp up as kick-off approaches! As regular readers will know, these article are posted on the site and on social media every Monday so keep an eye out for this week’s summary 18th January! If there are any Player Moves that you notice, or just to say what you think about these articles or the site, you can let NARDB/James know on social media: @MLRStats on Instagram/Threads, JamDelay & @NARugbyDB on Twitter/X, and @JamDelay & @NARDB on Bluesky! Alternatively, you can reach out to NARDB via the ‘Contact’ tab on this site.

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MLR Player Moves Summary: December 29, 2025 – January 4th, 2026

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James Deeley

Happy New Year rugby fans, and welcome to 2026!! Here’s hoping that the tumult and uncertainty of the second half of 2025 will stay in 2025, and let’s look ahead to this upcoming season which by necessity is Major League Rugby’s most important season to date. Some MLR teams are starting to come to the end of their roster announcements for their 2026 squad and as usual, that gives NARDB plenty to talk about despite a much quieter week.

Welcome back to NARDB’s Player Moves Summary series! As regular readers already know, these weekly articles aim to keep fans up to date on every single player announcement to, from, and all around Major League Rugby ahead of the 2026 season. This series only covers the players announced by the teams themselves, but that doesn’t mean that NARDB isn’t listening to any rumours that are out there. As always, the summary graphic for Player Moves announced last week between December 29th, 2025 and January 4th, 2026, followed by the re-signings section:

Player Moves Summary Graphic for December 29th 2025, to January 4th, 2026

Re-Signings

Old Glory DC were the first team to announce a returning player last week, confirming the return of Major League Rugby draftee John Powers for his 3rd year with the team in 2026, and 6th in the competition. Powers was selected 7th overall out of Iona College by the Utah Warriors in MLR’s inaugural draft back in 2020, and is one of only two players to ever be drafted from Iona College along with Watson Filikitonga in the same draft (14th Overall). Powers was signed by the Warriors for the 2021 MLR season and made his debut from the bench in his sole Utah appearance before being traded to New York ahead of the 2022 season in exchange for a 2022 3rd Round Draft Pick that was eventually used by the Houston SaberCats to select Brandon Karnes after being traded through Rugby ATL. Powers earned 7 appearances from the bench with the Ironworkers from 2022-2023, helping the team to lift the 2022 MLR Shield before withdrawing from the competition in late 2023. Powers was selected by Old Glory DC in the subsequent dispersal draft and has represented the Flags ever since. He has carved out a solid career with Old Glory DC, earning his first 11 career MLR starts across 26 games since 2023, scoring 2 tries and 12 points while gaining 465m of his career total 626m, and completing 75 of his 82 career tackles. Powers has played at centre, fullback, and even fly-half for Old Glory DC and this flexibility will prove very useful when injuries inevitably take their toll on the roster.

@oldglorydc via instagram

Intra-League Signings

On December 29th, Anthem RC kicked off last week’s player announcements with the news that they had added 2023 MLR Draftee Marques Fuala’au to their squad for the 2026 MLR season. A Central Washington University product, Fuala’au was selected by the Dallas Jackals with the 3rd overall pick of the 2023 MLR Draft and signed with the team for his debut Major League Rugby season in 2024. He had a solid first year as a professional player, scoring a try and earning 3 starts in 16 appearances for the Jackals to help them earn their first postseason berth with over 80 tackles completed and 195m gained. Following the withdrawal of the Dallas Jackals from MLR, Fuala’au headed to Miami and signed with the Sharks for the 2025 season, where he enjoyed another solid year. He earned a career high 8 starts in 15 games for the Sharks to also qualify for the postseason for the first time in team history, recording remarkably similar numbers as his debut season. Fuala’au has averaged 6 starts in 16 games across each of his first two seasons, recording 80 tackles and 177m gained on average each year. Anthem RC will mark Fuala’au’s 3rd team in as many seasons due to team withdrawals, but that will likely change given teh stability of the MLR/USA Rugby/World Rugby owned franchise. He will have to really compete for game time in that stacked Anthem back row, however.

Not done there, the following day Anthem RC also announced the addition of former Utah Warriors fullback Jordan Trainor for his 4th MLR campaign in 2026. The New Zealander first entered Major League Rugby with the LA Giltinis in 2022, scoring 3 tries in 13 games and gaining over 800m to earn a pair of MLR Team of the Week selections before the Giltinis were disqualified prior to the playoffs, and ceased operations. Trainor then moved to the NOLA Gold and bettered his 2022 performance, scoring 2 tries and 14pts while recording over 1000m gained and earning three more Team of the Week selections. Trainor did not feature in MLR during the 2024 season, instead staying in New Zealand before returning to the states with the Utah Warriors for a career year in 2025. For the Warriors, Trainor set career highs across the board with 16 appearances (all starts) and scored 8 tries and finished 2nd league-wide with 1,117m gained while completing 55 tackles. With just shy of 3,000m gained in his 39 games in MLR, Trainor is averaging a remarkable 76m gained per game and is scoring at a 0.3 tries a game pace, 0.5 tries per game in 2025 alone. Trainor will almost certainly be Anthem’s go-to fullback in 2026.

Following a few days of New Years’ celebrations, the Chicago Hounds kicked off 2026 with the announcement that they had added South African utility back Reece Botha to their roster. Eligible for the US on residency and therefore a domestic player for the 2026 season, Botha is a product of Lindenwood University who joined the NOLA Gold academy system in the fall of 2022 before earning an MLR deal with the team ahead of the 2023 season. Botha spent 3 seasons with the NOLA Gold, contributing 4 tries and 82pts in his 32 MLR appearances, including appearing in all 17 NOLA Gold games during the 2024 season, the team’s lone playoff appearance. Along with tries, Botha has scored 6 penalties and 22 conversions from the tee, going 28/44 (63.64%) in his career including 19/25 (76%) when he scored a career high 53pts in 2024. In 2025, Botha started at both fly-half and centre for the Gold, scoring a try and 15pts in 9 games (3 starts) during a disappointing final season in Major League Rugby for the NOLA Gold. His ability to play almost anywhere across the back line will no doubt prove useful to the Chicago Hounds as the 2026 MLR season trundles on.

Later that same day, the Seattle Seawolves announced their first player of 2026, confirming that they had added former Houston SaberCats scrum-half André Warner to their roster for the upcoming season. The Cape Town native entered Major League Rugby in 2024 and spent two seasons playing with the SaberCats from 2024-2025. He enjoyed an excellent debut season with the SaberCats in 2024, scoring 8 tries in 15 games (all starts) and recording 118 tackles as a scrum-half to earn an All-MLR First XV Selection, the only Houston player to be included in the First XV that season. The following year, Warner delivered another solid season for the SaberCats, although unsurprisingly a step back from his superb 2024. He added another 4 tries in 12 games (11 starts) and recorded 68 tackles as the SaberCats claimed the Western Conference Title in 2025, advancing to the Championship Game which Warner started, a 28-22 defeat to the New England Free Jacks in Rhode Island. An All-MLR First XV selection followed by a MLR runner-up campaign and the best season in SaberCats history is far from a bad two seasons in MLR. André Warner now joins fellow former SaberCats Davy Coetzer, Ezekiel Lindenmuth, and Marno Redelinghuys in Seattle, where he will be jostling for the starting 9 jersey with another South African, JP Smith.

@seawolvesrugby via Instagram

Wrapping Up

It seems like Major League Rugby teams were also enjoying some time off during the ‘Chrimbo Limbo’ period, as last week was significantly quieter on the Player Moves front, with only 5 announcements across the league comprised of 1 re-signing for Old Glory DC, and 4 intra-league moves including a pair of new additions for Anthem RC. Due to the season kicking off later this year, NARDB estimates that training camps should open in early to mid February in 2026 and so we should hear more from the California Legion in the next few weeks, likely revealing their full roster in one big bang.

Thank you very much for reading this week’s Player Moves Article! As we all get back into the swing of daily life, team and player news around the 2026 Major League Rugby season will be coming thick and fast, so keep an eye on socials! As regular readers will know, these article are posted on the site and on social media every Monday so keep an eye out for this week’s summary 12th January! If there are any Player Moves that you notice, or just to say what you think about these articles or the site, you can let NARDB/James know on social media: @MLRStats on Instagram/Threads, JamDelay & @NARugbyDB on Twitter/X, and @JamDelay & @NARDB on Bluesky! Alternatively, you can reach out to NARDB via the ‘Contact’ tab on this site. Finally, if you’re looking to jump into the offseason sales or pick up some discounted merch, visit shopmlr.com OR rugbynow.com and use code ‘MLRSTATS’ at checkout for 15% off of your order!