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Full name | Jarryd Lee Hayne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | The Hayne Plane, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
15 February 1988 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (16 st 1 lb; 225 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby league
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Position | Fullback, Wing, Centre, Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby union
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Position: | Running back / return specialist | ||||||||||||
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Date of birth: | 15 February 1988 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Westfields High School (NSW) | ||||||||||||
College: | None | ||||||||||||
Undrafted: | 2015 | ||||||||||||
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Rushing yards: | 52 |
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Rushing average: | 3.1 |
Touchdowns: | 0 |
Receiving yards: | 27 |
Punt return yards: | 76 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Jarryd Lee Hayne (born 15 February 1988) is an Australian professional rugby league player and former American football and rugby sevens player, who currently plays Fullback for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League (NRL). He previously played for the Parramatta Eels of the NRL, the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) and the Fiji national rugby sevens team in Rugby Union.
Hayne earned representative honours at NRL All Star, state and international levels (Australia and Fiji) throughout his rugby league career. He was awarded the Dally M Medal in 2009 and 2014 as the NRL's player of the year. In 2009, Hayne won the Rugby League International Federation's International Player of the Year award.
Hayne was born on 15 February 1988. He is the son of a Fijian father, Manoa Thompson, and an Australian mother, Jodie. He has three sibling: Julius, Jonah and Evie Thompson. His father played professional rugby league for South Sydney, Western Suburbs and the Auckland Warriors while also representing Fiji. Hayne was one of three children raised by his single mother, and grew up in a red brick Campbelltown housing commission house in Minto. In early life Hayne took up athletics winning multiple titles. He still holds the under 8 and under 9 year old Public School Sports Association (PSSA) 100 metre records. He competed in Little Athletics until under 15 age group. He attended school at John Warby Public School, Leumeah High and Westfields Sports High School but dropped out of high school early to pursue a career in rugby league.