Jarryd Hayne doesn’t look like this anymore! Footy star whose career was derailed by legal dramas unveils remarkable transformation after shedding ‘prison weight’

Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne is looking in top shape as he prepares to step back onto the footy field next week.

 

His six-and-a-half-year rugby league exile came to an end earlier this year, after Hayne, 37, returned to the pitch to play for the Wentworthville Magpies during a Ron Massey Cup match against Canterbury back in May.

 

The former Parramatta full-back showed no signs of rustiness either, with the 37-year-old, whose return could have come earlier in the year at the Gold Coast Nines had it not been for a hamstring issue, helping the Magpies seal victory, setting up a try to level the scores in the second half.

His NRL career came to an abrupt end in 2018, after he was charged with aggravated sexual assault.

 

After multiple trials, Hayne was sentenced to four years and nine months in jail in 2023, after a jury had found him guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

 

The former NRL player spent a year in prison before his conviction was overturned following an appeal in November 2023. The New South Wales Court of Appeal quashed his convictions on the basis that a judge had erred in not allowing a complainant not to be further cross-examined during the trial.