The Brisbane Broncos are moving to lock up the future of the already stunning playing group at Red Hill with bumper deals plotted for Reece Walsh and Ezra Mam on the eve of the 2023 NRL preliminary finals.
The club is already hard at work on separate deals for Walsh, 21, and Mam, 20, that total up to around $5,000,000 together and would see them stay in the iconic Brisbane maroon through to at least the end of the 2027 season.
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It’s a succession plan that comes amid a huge resurgence for the club. The Broncos have a young playing group helmed by emerging starlets like Walsh, Mam, Kotoni Staggs, and Payne Haas, all of whom have played key roles in Brisbane’s charge to the final four this year—despite many of them only being in their early 20s right now.
Broncos powerbrokers see Walsh and Mam as two key lynchpins in the squad today.
And so, these deals—the Mam side of which The Sporting Base reported was in the works some months ago—are now being put together at lightning pace in the Queensland state capital.
The biggest headliner is that this extension plan would make Reece Walsh the game’s latest million-dollar player, with few possibly able to argue that it would be undeserved. Mam similarly (should he accept) would earn around $700,000 a season for the next four years.
Part of the reason the Broncos are trying to move so quickly is that Walsh and Mam will be given the chance to negotiate with rival clubs from November 1 this year. They’re both contracted for 2024 but would be free to talk about 2025 onward once that date rolls around—and neither are short of suitors in the game.
Walsh, who is paid around $450,000 a season right now, would command seven figures on the open market easily. Mam could also demand close to $800,000 to $900,000 if he made a switch.
The Sporting Base expects both to re-sign—each has bought into Kevin Walter’s project quite heavily in recent months.
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Earlier this season, the Broncos already locked up Haas in the richest deal the club has ever made and also re-signed Patrick Carrigan. Adam Reynolds has also been offered a one-year extension.
