Will Brimson. The older brother of up and coming Titans star AJ Brimson is a talented player in his own right.* After a solid career in the NYC competition with the Brisbane Bronco’s Will Brimson is carving out a career in the Queensland Cup with the Wynnum Manly Seagulls and still only 22 years old there is plenty more to come for the backline utility.

Will Brimson joined the Seagulls for the start of the 2017 season after graduating from the NYC competition at the end of the 2016 season playing in sixteen matches in his debut Queensland Cup season.* In those matches Will Brimson scored tries in Round Two against the Northern Pride and in Round Eighteen against the Central Queensland Capra’s.* Will Brimson started eleven matches at five eight, two at half, one in the centres and his remaining matches from the interchange bench.

In total in the Queensland Cup in 2017, Will Brimson played 1 124 minutes, running for 810 metres and made 162 tackles. His 2017 per game averages included playing 70 minutes running for 51 metres and making 10 tackles. In Rounds Fourteen and Seventeen Will Brimson ran for 103 metres with the games being against Tweed Heads and South’s Logan.

Will Brimson spent three years in the Bronco’s NYC side, being from 2014 through to 2016 playing forty matches in total, the majority of those at halfback. In 2016 Will Brimson scored nine tries and averaged 49 metres and fourteen tackles and game.* He had similar averages in 2015 from nineteen matches.

In relation to his play making ability, Will Brimson Currie has both a very good long and short passing game and generates very good spin on the ball which aids accuracy in relation to his passing.* Another aspect that is very good is that there is no discernible difference in relation to his passing to either his left or right, in both instances he rotates his body well.* In relation to his short passing Will Brimson will run right to the line and present his outside runners with good pop passes which enables them to run right into gaps in the defensive line.

Defensively Will Brimson is also a strong presence on the field and more than held his own over the course of the 2017 season even against the largest of opposing forwards looking to target him on the fringes of the ruck.* He gets low and generates significant leverage with his lower body and drives into his opponent with a strong effect.* Against opposing halves Will Brimson uses his lateral mobility to mirror their movement to ensure that they do not get on his outside and he is disciplined enough not to come out of the line and maintain the proper defensive spacing.

Will Brimson will line up again in the Queensland Cup competition for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls where he should only get better and better after the experience that he gained in 2017.

From a position perspective, I think that he has the ability to stay at five eight being 188cm and 92kg.* Will Brimson is a bit bigger than his younger brother and thus has the size to handle the defensive burden of giant backrowers running at him all day.* From an attacking perspective the quality of Will Brimson’s ability to put runners into holes developed exponentially as the 2017 Queensland Cup season progressed.

For me a current NRL player with a similar playing style to that of Will Brimson is soon to be Penrith Panther and Australian International five eight James Maloney, being that of a solid talented all round five eight who will surprise a defensive line with some very good short balls when it looks for all money like he is going to run himself.