NRL 2021: Telstra Tracker, Parramatta Eels, Blake Ferguson record fastest speed of week two of finals
Veteran Eels winger Blake Ferguson was the fastest player in week two of the finals.
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Veteran Eels winger Blake Ferguson was the fastest player in week two of the finals.
Friday night's semi-finalists compared by Telstra Tracker stats.
Broncos rookie ranks among the NRL's top speedsters.
Based on his maximum speed in the 2021 Telstra Premiership, debutant Blues halfback Mitchell Moses will be the fourth-fastest player in State of Origin III. With a PB of 36.1km/h, Moses can lay claim to being quicker on this season's Telstra Tracker than all of his NSW teammates except winger Josh Addo-Carr (38.1km), the fastest man in the game. Moses has outpaced Tom Trbojevic (35.9km/h), Brian To'o (34.7km/h) and James Tedesco (33.4km/h) and found a higher gear than Queensland's Dane Gagai (35.7km/h) and Kalyn Ponga (34.4km/h). Of course, Moses might not win a normal footrace if all those p...
The Maroons failed to score a point as they lost the Origin series in game two, but they at least took the top spot in the majority of the Telstra Tracker metrics. Winger Xavier Coates, who received a dramatic late call-up after Ronaldo Mulitalo's eligibility-enforced withdrawal, produced the top speed (35.6km/h) of the series in Queensland's 26-0 loss on Sunday. Coates also led the way for high-speed efforts (bursts of 20km/h or more) with 31 - equalling Blues fullback James Tedesco. Makeshift Maroons centre Kurt Capewell covered the most high-speed distance (730.9m over 20km/h) as he scramb...