NRLW Top 50 players for 2024: Tamika Upton on the path to GOAT status
Tamika Upton is the best player in the NRLW — and on her way to becoming the greatest of all time. Check out who sits alongside the Knights star in this year’s list of top NRLW players.
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Tamika Upton is the reigning queen of the NRLW.
She’s won four titles in five seasons, three State of Origin series’, two Karyn Murphy Medals and one Dally M Medal as women’s player of the year.
The Newcastle fullback can dance around defence, create tries from nothing and her game sense is unmatched.
The 27-year-old is the best player in the competition and is on the way to becoming the greatest of all time.
In a ranking of the top 50 NRLW players ahead of the 2024 season, Upton is No.1 ahead of Queensland teammate Tarryn Aiken.
The Sydney Roosters five-eighth is one of the most exciting players to watch with a kicking game, pace and footwork to rival any playmaker the NRLW has seen.
Fellow Roosters star and NSW co-captain Isabelle Kelly rounds out the top three in a list stacked with ex-Rugby Sevens stars, a teen sensation and experienced heads coming to the end of their careers at the top.
Knights halfback Jesse Southwell is a top 20 player right now, but at the age of 19 she has already won back-to-back NRLW titles and has the skills to become one of the best players in the competition’s history.
She’s the only teenager on the list and is one of eight players aged 22 or younger, including Dragons speedster Teagan Berry, Queensland hooker Destiny Brill and Sharks fullback Jada Taylor.
The youth in the list points to a changing of the guard among the top NRLW stars as the game moves towards full-time professionalism over the next few years.
PAMELA WHALEY’S TOP NRLW PLAYERS
1. Tamika Upton
2. Tarryn Aiken
3. Isabelle Kelly
4. Teagan Berry
5. Jess Sergis
6. Gayle Broughton
7. Ali Brigginshaw
8. Simaima Taufa
9. Georgia Hale
10. Raecene McGregor
Originally published as NRLW Top 50 players for 2024: Tamika Upton on the path to GOAT status
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