Jarrod Wallace

Early life

Wallace was born and raised on the Gold Coast, playing his first junior rugby league for the Runaway Bay Seagulls at age 4. At age 13, Wallace moved to Coffs Harbour, New South Wales where his father played local rugby league. While there, he played junior rugby league with the Sawtell Panthers before signing with the Gold Coast Titans at age 16, and moving back to Queensland.

Early career

He played for the Titan's SG Ball side and later player 17 games for their NYC side in 2010. He signed with the Brisbane Broncos for the 2011 season and spent the entire season playing for the club's NYC side.

2012

Wallace was elevated into the Broncos' first grade squad and played in two pre-season trials. He started the 2012 season playing for the Broncos' feeder side the Norths Devils in the Intrust Super Cup. He was named in the 2012 Queensland Residents side to take on their New South Wales counterparts in the curtain raiser to Game 3 of the 2012 State of Origin series at Suncorp Stadium.

Wallace made his National Rugby League debut in the Broncos 40-22 Round 14 win against the Sydney Roosters at the Sydney Football Stadium.

2013

In 2013 Jarrod both played for Norths Devils and Broncos throughout the season playing majority with the Devils. Jarrod first played in 2013 against the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Round 8 and played 5 games latter in the season as well.

2014

Jarrod started the season by sitting on the bench for the first two games against the Bulldogs and Cowboys for the whole 80 minutes, Then in Round 3 Jarrod Finally got on the field against the Roosters. Jarrod in total got 14 games including 1 start against the West Tigers during the origin period.

2015

Wallace didn't play any pre-season or round 1 due to shoulder surgery. In Round 2, he returned, then he was again selected in round 3 against the Cowboys in which he made more running metres than Australian test forward Matt Scott and in Round 4 against the New Zealand Warriors Wallace scored his first NRL try. A week later Jarrod got his first start for the year when Adam Blair was injured. In Round 6 Wallace was placed on report for a chicken wing tackle and was suspended for a week. In round 19 Wallace scored his 2nd career try against the Wests Tigers following a short pass from Adam Blair. A day after his 24th Birthday Wallace scored his 3rd try against Gold Coast Titans in Round 20. In Rounds 21-22, he started at prop due to Blair being suspended. Then for the remainder of the season Wallace played off the bench including the 2015 NRL Grand Final loss to the North Queensland Cowboys. Wallace played in 25 of the Broncos 27 games and scored 3 tries.

2016

Wallace in January was selected in the QAS emerging Maroons squad, On the 5th February Wallace was one of eight players from the Maroons emerging camp who was banned from representing Queensland for 12-months after breaking a curfew in Brisbane. On the 21st July, Wallace signed a 3-year deal with the Gold Coast Titans commencing in 2017. Wallace complete 2016 with playing in all 26 games and scoring two tries in his final season at the Brisbane Broncos.

2017

Wallace made his debut for the Gold Coast Titans in Round 1 in a 32-18 loss to the Sydney Roosters at Cbus Super Stadium. For Game 1 of the 2017 State of Origin series Wallace was selected as 18th Man for Queensland, For Game 2 and 3 of the Series Jarrod was selected both games as starting Prop. In the third game, Wallace scored the match sealing Try for Queensland against New South Wales from a Cameron Munster offload to secure Queensland 11th series in the last 12 series.

Statistics

(* denotes season still competing)