Canadian-eligible Irish scrum-half Jason Higgins played in Major League Rugby between 2021-2024. He represented the Toronto Arrows (2021), the San Diego Legion (2022-2023), and the Chicago Hounds (2024).

From Cork, Higgins is eligible for Canada through his Canadian father. He played for Cork Constitution in the All-Ireland League and Munster Senior Cup, winning the competition in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019. He was in talks with Rugby United New York (now Rugby New York Ironworkers) to play there in the truncated 2020 season, but was unable to secure a visa before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the season down.

Higgins signed with the Toronto Arrows ahead of the 2021 MLR season, and earned 13 MLR appearances in his debut season in North America, scoring 4 tries. Following the MLR season, he earned his international debut with Canada in September against the USA as part of the RWC 2023 qualifiers. He signed with the San Diego Legion ahead of the 2022 MLR season and spent 2 seasons in California, earning 20 caps total (13 starts) including 7 during the Legion‘s historic 15-1 2023 season, en route to the Championship Final where the Legion fell 24-25 to the New England Free Jacks. To date, Higgins has earned 33 MLR caps (16 starts), scoring 12 tries including 1 hattrick for the San Diego Legion in 2022.

On 13th November 2023, the San Diego Legion traded Jason Higgins to the Chicago Hounds in exchange for Australian hooker Hugh Roach. In his first season with the Hounds, Higgins scored 4 tries in 13 games (5 starts) including a hattrick in the same game that Dylan Fawsitt also scored a hat trick, becoming the first teammates in MLR history to score hat tricks in the same game. The Hounds qualified for the postseason for the first time in team history that year, and Higgins came off the bench in both playoff games for the Hounds, defeating the NOLA Gold on the road before falling to the eventual champions, the New England Free Jacks in the Eastern Conference Final.

Achievements:

• MLR Team of the Week: 2024 – Rd 6
• MLR Runner-Up: 2023 (San Diego Legion)
• MLR Team of the Week: 2022 – Rd 16