Blayke Brailey has handled a Steeden 917 times more than any other player this season.

Cronulla’s stand-in skipper hasn’t missed a game in six seasons . He has averaged between 78 and 80 minutes a week for the past five years – almost 200 hours of football.

Accordingly, Brailey has touched the ball over 3000 times more than the NRL’s next most involved player – Bulldogs rake Reed Mahoney – in that period.

His 6146 tackles are the most of any man since 2020. In all, Brailey has handled the ball 17,763 times since he last missed an NRL game. And yet, the 80-kilogram hooker is still filthy about the eight minutes he had to watch from the stands earlier this year when a round-3 win over the Rabbitohs was well and truly in the bag.

“I got a cork and had to come off. I know, soft,” Brailey

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