Darius Boyd

Darius Boyd

Personal information
Nickname	Darbs
Born	(1987-07-17) 17 July 1987 (age 29) Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	95 kg (14 st 13 lb)
Playing information
Position	Fullback, Wing
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2006–08 Brisbane Broncos 73 31 0 0 124 2009–11 St. George Illawarra 69 13 0 0 52 2012–14 Newcastle Knights 62 17 0 0 68 2015– Brisbane Broncos 52 14 0 0 56 Total 256 75 0 0 300 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2008–16 Queensland 26 17 0 0 68 2008–16 Australia 21 16 0 0 64 2012 Prime Minister's XIII 1 0 0 0 0
As of 7 May 2016 Source:

Darius Boyd (born 17 July 1987) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer and captain of the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League (NRL). He returned to the club for the 2015 NRL season after having previously played for them between 2006 and 2008, including winning the 2006 NRL Grand Final. In the intervening years he played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons between 2009 and 2011, also winning the 2010 NRL Grand Final, and the Newcastle Knights during 2012 to 2014, all under a single coach: Wayne Bennett. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative, he plays at fullback and wing.

Born at the Gold Coast Hospital on 17 July 1987, Boyd was raised by his single mother throughout most of his childhood. He began playing junior football at a young age for the Parkwood Sharks, which led to playing at halftime during a Gold Coast Seagulls match in 1993. He later switched clubs to the Mudgeeraba Redbacks.

Boyd attended Robina State High School during this time but switched schools to the famed rugby league nursery, Palm Beach Currumbin High School, in Year 10. It was at this point Boyd's mother became ill and he starting living with his grandmother, as well as spending periods of time living with football friend's families. Following graduation in 2004, he was not recruited by any NRL teams and decided to repeat Year 12 at PBC in the hope of garnering attention from NRL teams. The decision turned out to be a fruitful one with the Brisbane Broncos offering Boyd a scholarship, followed by a $20,000 contract for the 2006 NRL season.