{{Short description|Australian rugby league footballer}} {{about|the Australian rugby league footballer|the Scottish footballer|Pat Carrigan}} {{Infobox rugby league biography | name = Patrick Carrigan | fullname = Patrick Carrigan | image = Pat Carrigan Australia 2025.jpg | image_size = | position = {{rlp|LK|PR}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1998|1|1}} | birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | height = {{convert|190|cm|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|106|kg|stlb|abbr=on}} | club1 = {{nowrap|Brisbane Broncos}} | year1start = 2019 | year1end = present | appearances1 = 140 | tries1 = 5 | goals1 = 0 | fieldgoals1 = 0 | points1 = 20 | teamA = {{nowrap|Queensland Residents}} | yearAstart = 2018 | yearAend = | appearancesA = 1 | triesA = 0 | goalsA = 0 | fieldgoalsA = 0 | pointsA = 0 | teamB = Queensland | yearBstart = 2022 | yearBend = 26 | appearancesB = 13 | triesB = 0 | goalsB = 0 | fieldgoalsB = 0 | pointsB = 0 | teamC = Australia | yearCstart = 2022 | yearCend = 25 | appearancesC = 14 | triesC = 0 | goalsC = 0 | fieldgoalsC = 0 | pointsC = 0 | source = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/patrick-carrigan/summary.html|title=Patrick Carrigan - Career Stats & Summary|website=Rugby League Project|access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref> | updated = 31 May 2026 }}
'''Patrick Carrigan''' (born 1 January 1998) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a ball-playing {{rlp|lk}} or {{rlp|pr}} for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League, with whom he won the 2025 NRL Grand Final. He also represents Australia at international level.
He has played at representative level for Queensland in State of Origin, winning the Wally Lewis Medal in 2022.
==Background== Carrigan was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to parents from both Queensland and New South Wales.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-alkrfLkk | title=How deep does Queensland really run in the Maroons? 😉 #Maroons #qldmaroons #triplem #brisbane #bronc | website=YouTube | date=27 May 2024 }}</ref> He attended St Laurence's College, South Brisbane from year 5 to 7 and he completed his schooling at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/australian-rugby-union-wallabies-wallaroos-grassroots-schools/102464748 RA & the private schoolboy image ''ABC News 14 June 2023'']</ref> where he was School Captain in 2015. There he played Rugby Union and captained their 1st XV.<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 November 2020|title=Patrick Carrigan|url=http://www.ttsports.com.au/carrigan.html|access-date=5 November 2020|website=Titanium Sports Management|archive-date=26 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126100856/http://www.ttsports.com.au/carrigan.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=26 January 2017|title=How Broncos prospect resisted rugby's lure|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2017/01/26/how-broncos-prospect-resisted-rugbys-lure/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=National Rugby League}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=18 April 2019|title=Pat makes the big league and The Chief couldn't be prouder|url=https://www.goondiwindiargus.com.au/story/6054109/carrigan-runs-on-for-the-broncos/|access-date=19 November 2020|website=Goondiwindi Argus}}</ref> He was selected for Metropolitan North School Sports Rugby League in 2015.
Carrigan played his junior football for the Easts Tigers before being signed by the Brisbane Broncos.<ref>{{Cite web|date=24 September 2019|title=Pat Carrigan set to cap stunning NRL rise with leadership role|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/teams/broncos/pat-carrigan-set-to-cap-stunning-nrl-rise-with-leadership-role/news-story/7236c94b693bf366b531e6e62f28f3a7|access-date=19 November 2020|website=The Australian}}</ref>
A UQ Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) student, he received a UQ Blue sporting honour in 2019, only the third Rugby League player to win this award since 1912.<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 November 2020|title=Follow my lead : UQ student to co-captain Brisbane Broncos against Cowboys|url=https://stories.uq.edu.au/contact-magazine/2020/uq-student-to-captain-brisbane-broncos-against-cowboys/index.html|access-date=5 November 2020|website=University of Queensland}}</ref>
Carrigan is eligible to play for the Ireland national rugby league team via the heritage rule.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/nrl-players-keen-represent-ireland-world-cup-luke-keary | title=More NRL players keen to represent Ireland at World Cup | date=18 August 2022 }}</ref> Efforts were made to recruit Carrigan for the 2021 Men's Rugby League World Cup with Carrigan ultimately being selected and playing for the Australia national rugby league team.
==Playing career==
===Early career=== Carrigan played for the Brisbane Broncos in the Holden Cup from 2016 to 2017, winning the Broncos NYC U20s Player of The Year award both seasons, Broncos NYC U20s Best Forward in 2016 and Broncos NYC U20s Players' Player in 2017.{{cn|date=January 2023}} right|thumb|upright|Carrigan playing for Brisbane in 2017 Carrigan was named in the 2017 NYC Team of The Year at {{rlp|pr}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://18thman.com/2017/09/04/2017-nyc-team-of-the-year-named|title=NYC Team of The Year Named|website=www.the18thman.com|date=4 September 2017 }}</ref>
Carrigan represented Queensland U18s in 2016 starting at {{rlp|pr}} and Queensland U20s in 2017 off the bench and captained the QLD U20s in 2018, starting at {{rlp|pr}} in QLDs first ever win in the U20s, winning 30 to 12 vs the NSW U20s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qrl.com.au/news/20182/07/10/qld-u20-official-team-photo|title=QLD U20 Official Team Photo|website=www.qrl.com.au|date=9 July 2018 }}</ref>
In 2018 with the Holden Cup ceasing, Carrigan would continue to develop with the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the Intrust Super Cup and would be rewarded with selection for the Junior Kangaroos, starting at {{rlp|pr}} in the 40-24 win over the Junior Kiwis.
===2019=== In Round 5, 2019 Carrigan made his NRL debut for the Brisbane Broncos against the Wests Tigers. Carrigan would finish the season with 19 games played and would be awarded a joint winner of the Broncos Rookie of The Year award alongside fellow Broncos U20s graduate Thomas Flegler.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
===2020=== With regular captain Alex Glenn missing the start of the 2020 NRL season due to injury, Carrigan would co-captain Brisbane for the first two rounds of the 2020 NRL season alongside recruit Brodie Croft having only previously played 19 NRL games in his career.
Carrigan made 19 appearances for Brisbane captaining in 12 of those games in the 2020 NRL season as the club finished last on the table and claimed the wooden spoon for the first time in their history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/09/24/brisbane-get-wooden-spoon-as-cowboys-finish-on-a-high/|title=Brisbane get wooden spoon as North Queensland finish on a high|website=www.nrl.com|date=24 September 2020 }}</ref>
Carrigan would win both the Broncos Player of The Year & Players' Player awards alongside Payne Haas, while being the sole recipient of the Broncos Most Consistent award.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
===2021=== In Round 9 of the 2021 NRL season, Carrigan suffered a season ending ACL injury during Brisbane's 19-18 loss against arch-rivals North Queensland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/10/carrigans-acl-tear-raises-five-unlikely-broncos-captaincy-contenders/|title=Carrigan's ACL tear raises five unlikely Broncos captaincy contenders|website=www.nrl.com|date=10 May 2021 }}</ref>
===2022=== Returning from his ACL in Round 1, Carrigan would return finding career best form for a reborn Brisbane, helping return the club to the Top 4 mid-way through the competition, Carrigan would produce career best numbers to gain his maiden State of Origin jumper after just 8 games back. Carrigan played the first two games from the bench and the final game starting at {{rlp|lk}}. He became the first player in their debut series to win the Wally Lewis Medal.
Following Brisbane's shock loss against the Wests Tigers in round 20 of the 2022 NRL season, Carrigan was referred straight to the NRL judiciary after he performed a hip drop tackle on Wests Tigers Jackson Hastings which ended the players season. As a result of the tackle, Carrigan was suspended for four weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/broncos-pat-carrigan-referred-directly-to-judiciary-over-horrendous-act/news-story/c92705fc554b6d7906a71b622f52d7e4/|title=Broncos' Pat Carrigan breaks rivals leg in 'horrendous' tackle|website=www.news.com.au}}</ref> upright|thumb|Carrigan playing for Australia in 2022 In October he was named in the Australia squad for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/rugby-league-world-cup-2021-squad-lists|title=Full list of every squad at the Rugby League World Cup 2021|date=4 October 2022|website=LoveRugbyLeague}}</ref> Carrigan played for Australia in their World Cup final victory over Samoa.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2022/nov/19/australia-v-samoa-rugby-league-world-cup-final-live/|title=Australia 30-10 Samoa: Rugby League World Cup final – as it happened|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 November 2022 |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Luke }}</ref>
===2023=== Carrigan re-signed his contract with the club until at least the end of the 2028 season.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.broncos.com.au/news/2023/03/09/carrigan-locks-in-another-four-years-with-broncos/ | title=Carrigan locks in another four years with Broncos. | date=9 March 2023 }}</ref> In round 22 of the 2023 NRL season, Carrigan scored his first ever try in the NRL as Brisbane defeated the Sydney Roosters 32-10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2023-brisbane-broncos-v-sydney-roosters-live-blog-highlights-video-teams-changes-stats-victor-radley-why-the-gabba/news-story/1b277d60ef30853b98e6e85a04aee3c2/|title=Chooks cooked despite veteran's historic feat as Bronco breaks 78-game try duck — 3 Big Hits|website=www.foxsports.com.au|date=27 July 2023 }}</ref> Carrigan played 23 games for Brisbane in the 2023 NRL season. Carrigan played in Brisbane's 26-24 loss against Penrith in the 2023 NRL Grand Final.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2023/oct/01/nrl-grand-final-2023-penrith-panthers-vs-brisbane-broncos-live-updates-scores-results-teams-squads-kick-off-time-accor-stadium-sydney/|title=NRL grand final 2023: Penrith Panthers defeat Brisbane Broncos – as it happened|newspaper=The Guardian|date=October 2023 |last1=Howcroft |first1=Jonathan }}</ref>
===2024=== On 12 February, a video emerged of Carrigan and teammate Adam Reynolds being involved in a melee after the Brisbane club's annual fan day with one of the onlookers saying "let go of him... Adam... Pat... stop". It was alleged Reynolds had told Carrigan who was intoxicated to get a taxi and go home which started the fight. The Brisbane club then released a statement which read "The Broncos are looking into an incident involving some of its playing group in Brisbane City last night, The club was made aware of the incident last night and has been speaking to players across the course of the day to clarify details of what occurred.The NRL Integrity Unit has been informed of the matter."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2024-adam-reynolds-and-pat-carrigan-involved-in-bust-up-after-brisbane-broncos-fan-day-video-footage-nrl-integrity-unit-statement/news-story/7a53439ee6fdbaedd7b62e91480c4163/|title='Adam...Pat...stop!': Superstar pair in bust-up after Broncos fan day|website=www.foxsports.com.au|date=13 February 2024 }}</ref> Carrigan played 22 games for Brisbane in the 2024 NRL season which saw the club miss the finals finishing 12th on the table.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2024-daly-cherryevans-and-cameron-munster-support-kevin-walters-facing-the-axe-brisbane-broncos-club-review-news-videos-highlights/news-story/a1e007cfb303202b87ff3a8eafde4060/|title=‘Really can’t hide’: Queensland superstars back under-siege Walters amid Broncos review|website=www.foxsports.com.au}}</ref>
===2025=== During Brisbane's Finals Week 1 clash against the Canberra Raiders, Carrigan was sin-binned in the 55th minute after a shoulder charge to the head of Morgan Smithies, coming shortly after teammate Reece Walsh was sin-binned for a headbutt.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-09-14 |title='You're allowed to headbutt': Stuart's complaint rings true as Walsh dodges ban |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/reece-walsh-headbutt-pat-carrigan-bans-from-broncos-raiders/105772942 |access-date=2025-10-13 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref> Carrigan received a one match ban, resulting in him missing Brisbane's Preliminary finals clash against the Penrith Panthers. Despite this, Brisbane would win both finals matches sending them to the 2025 NRL Grand Final.
Carrigan played 25 games for Brisbane in the 2025 NRL season including the clubs 2025 NRL Grand Final victory over Melbourne.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2025/oct/05/nrl-2025-grand-final-melbourne-storm-v-brisbane-broncos-rugby-league-live/|title=Brisbane Broncos beat Melbourne Storm – as it happened|website=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
===2026=== On 19 February, Carrigan played in Brisbane's World Club Challenge loss against Hull Kingston Rovers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/live/cwy6dlgx3kyt/|title=Relive Hull KR's World Club Challenge win over Brisbane|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
== Statistics == {| class="wikitable" |+ !Year !Team !Games !Tries !Pts |- |2019 | rowspan="8" |{{Leagueicon|Brisbane|16}} Brisbane Broncos |19 | | |- |2020 |19 | | |- |2021 |8 | | |- |2022 |14 | | |- |2023 |23 |2 |8 |- |2024 |22 |2 |4 |- |2025 |25 | | |- |2026 | | | |- | |Totals |130 |4 |12 |}
==Honours== '''Individual''' *'''Brisbane Broncos U20s Player Of The Year''': 2016, 2017 *'''Brisbane Broncos U20s Players' Player''': 2017 *'''Holden Cup Team Of The Year''': 2017 *'''Brisbane Broncos Rookie Of The Year''': 2019 *'''Brisbane Broncos Players' Player''': 2020 *'''Brisbane Broncos Most Consistent''': 2020, 2022, 2025 *'''Brisbane Broncos Player Of The Year''': 2020, 2024 *'''Brisbane Broncos Community Service Award''': 2022, 2023 *'''Wally Lewis Medal''': 2022 *'''Ron McAuliffe Medal''': 2022 *'''Dally M Lock Of The Year''': 2023 *'''Carl Webb Medal''': 2024 '''Club''' *'''NRL Grand Finalist''': 2023, 2025 *'''NRL Pre-Season Challenge''': 2024, 2025 *'''NRL Premiership''': 2025 '''Representative''' *'''Rugby League World Cup Champion''': 2021 *'''State Of Origin Series Winner''': 2022, 2023, 2025 *'''Rugby League Pacific Championship Winner''': 2024
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *[https://www.broncos.com.au/teams/nrl-premiership/brisbane-broncos/patrick-carrigan/ Brisbane Broncos Profile]
{{Brisbane Broncos squad}} {{Brisbane Broncos squad 2025 NRL premiership}} {{Australia 2021 Rugby League World Cup squad}} {{2017 National Youth Competition Team of the Year}} {{Australia 2025 Ashes squad}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
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