The 2022 season has seen a handful of fresh faces make their NRL debuts for the Canberra Raiders, and the next player tipped to get the honour has drawn comparisons to star forward, Josh Papalii.
Standing 1.84m tall, Ata Mariota is primed to cannonball his muscular 114kg frame into first-grade opposition defences as a deceptively fast and agile prop perfectly suited for the up-tempo modern game.
The Samoan-born 21-year-old grew up playing rugby union in New Zealand before he was recruited by...