Zero Tackle's NRL MVP 2025 team of the year

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The NRL regular season concludes, highlighting top players based on weekly performance votes.

Zero Tackle

The NRL regular season is over, and while the finals are around the corner, it's worth a quick look back at the year that was.

Every week this year, Zero Tackle's team of founder Matt Clements, writers Ethan Lee Chalk and Dan Nichols, and myself as editor have assigned votes to every game of the season on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis.

The qualification for this team is that the player must have started more (or equal) games in a position than the rest to qualify.

1. James Tedesco (Sydney Roosters) - 1st place, 266 votes
2. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (New Zealand Warriors) - 6th place, 160 votes
3. Herbie Farnworth (The Dolphins) - 4th place, 169 votes
4. Kotoni Staggs (Brisbane Broncos) - 38th place, 103 votes
5. Mark Nawaqanitawase (Sydney Roosters) - 14th place, 140 votes
6. Ethan Strange (Canberra Raiders) - 26th place, 122 votes*
7. Nathan Cleary (Penrith Panthers) - 11th place, 146 votes
8. Terrell May (Wests Tigers) - 2nd place, 206 votes
9. Blayke Brailey (Cronulla Sharks) 23rd place, 130...

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