Personal information
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Born |
Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia |
9 April 1996 |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 88 kg (13 st 12 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Jayden Brailey (born 9 April 1996) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL. He plays as a hooker.
Brailey was born in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia.
He played his junior football for the Aquinas Holy Family Colts and attended Aquinas College, Menai. In 2014, Brailey played for the Australian Schoolboys. In 2015 and 2016, Brailey played for the Sharks NYC team. On 4 September 2016, Brailey was awarded as the 2016 Holden Cup Player of the Year.
After the retirement of Michael Ennis after the Sharks historical 2016 NRL Grand Final win against the Melbourne Storm, Brailey after an excellent 2016 in the Holden Cup had beaten newly recruited potential candidates for the vacant Hooker spot Daniel Mortimer and Manaia Cherrington in the top 17. In 2017 he made his debut for the Sharks in the World Club Challenge match against the Wigan Warriors. On 2 March 2017, Brailey made his first appearance in the NRL for Cronulla against the Brisbane Broncos.