Veteran forward Adam Elliott has signed a one-year deal with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, securing his fourth NRL club after a turbulent stint at Newcastle.
The 31-year-old joins the Rabbitohs immediately, having passed all required medical testing following a challenging final season with the Knights, where a serious biceps injury limited him to just seven games.
Rabbitohs recruitment boss Mark Ellison said Elliott’s consistency and experience made him a valuable addition to the club’s forward stocks.
“Adam has been a consistent performer at the NRL level for a decade now, and we feel he will add experience and create more depth within our forwards this season,” Ellison said.
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“He is renowned as a hardworking and aggressive forward, a punishing defender, and he has a reputation as a leader of men and a player that teammates want to play with. We’re looking forward to seeing him in red and green this season, and we welcome him, his wife Millie, and his children Lenny and Gigi to the Rabbitohs family,” Ellison continued.
The move also helps Elliott’s family situation, with NRLW player and wife Millie contracted to the Sydney Roosters and set to resume her career at Bondi after taking 2025 off due to the birth of their first child in September.
With Redfern just a stone’s throw away from the eastern suburbs, the signing makes sense both on and off the field, with Millie Elliott contracted for the next two seasons at the Roosters.
For the Rabbitohs, it is a strong value signing, with the star-studded pack having struggled with forward depth in past seasons due to injuries to key players like Cameron Murray and a lack of quality options in the middle.
His arrival comes as welcome reinforcement for a forward pack that has also seen multiple departures, including Davey Moale, Jacob Host, Shaq Mitchell, Siliva Havili, and Ben Lovett.
Adam Elliott began his NRL career with the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2016, spent a season at Canberra in 2022, and joined the Knights thereafter.
The experienced lock is expected to compete for a bench spot and provide leadership and toughness in a forward rotation that will be tested throughout the 2026 campaign.