Jarryd Hayne

Jarryd Hayne

Personal information
Full name	Jarryd Lee Hayne
Born	(1988-02-15) February 15, 1988 (age 36) Minto, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Rugby league
Position	Fullback, Wing, Centre, Five-eighth
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2006–14 Parramatta Eels 176 103 2 3 419 2016–17 Gold Coast Titans 23 8 0 1 33 2018 Parramatta Eels 15 10 0 0 40 Total 214 121 2 4 492 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2006–13 Prime Minister's XIII 3 6 0 0 24 2007–12 City NSW 5 3 0 0 12 2007–17 New South Wales 23 11 0 0 44 2007–13 Australia 11 11 0 0 44 2008–18 Fiji 10 5 0 0 20 2010–13 NRL All Stars 2 1 0 0 4
Rugby union
Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2016 Fiji 7s (Sevens) 5 0 0 0 0
Source: [1][2] As of 22 December 2020

Jarryd Lee Hayne (born 1988) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who also briefly played American football and rugby union sevens.

Hayne began his career in 2006 as a winger for the Parramatta Eels, winning the NRL's Dally M Rookie of the Year award. The following year, he made his debut for New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia internationally, and began playing primarily as a fullback. Hayne won the Dally M Medal in 2009 and 2014 as the league's player of the year, and the Rugby League International Federation's International Player of the Year award in 2009. He represented Australia at the 2013 Rugby League World Cup, and his father's native Fiji at the 2008 and 2017 tournaments when not selected for Australia.

Hayne attracted significant attention when he made the switch from one of the NRL's top players to a rookie with the San Francisco 49ers in the 2015 NFL season. At the end of the season, Hayne ended his NFL career. In 2016, he represented Fiji 7s in rugby union sevens, but after not being selected for the 2016 Olympic squad, he returned to the NRL with the Gold Coast Titans before a final season with Parramatta in 2018.

In March 2021, he was found guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a woman at her home in Newcastle, New South Wales in 2018, and was given a minimum sentence of three years and eight months in prison, with earliest release in January 2025. In February 2022, the Court of Criminal Appeal allowed the appeal, quashed Hayne's conviction and ordered a fresh trial. After a 2023 re-trial, Hayne was convicted of rape. On May 12, 2023, he was sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison. In June 2024, he won an appeal against his rape conviction and was released.