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Andrew Johns
Andrew Johns captained the Newcastle Knights to both of the club's premierships, in 1997 and again in 2001, and he won the Dally M Medal as the NRL's best player three times — back-to-back in 1998 and 1999, then a third, unprecedented time in 2002. In 2012, Johns was named the eighth Immortal of Australian rugby league, the sport's highest individual honor, and the first Immortal selected specifically for his performances in the modern NRL era rather than the earlier competitions that shaped the game's first Immortals. Johns's later public disclosure of his struggles with bipolar disorder and substance use during his playing career added a candid, widely discussed dimension to his post-retirement public profile, contributing to broader conversations about mental health among professional rugby league players specifically. His combination of a third, unprecedented Dally M Medal in 2002 and his 2012 selection as an Immortal has made Johns the player most frequently cited by fellow professionals as the greatest halfback in the sport's history.
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Cameron Smith
Cameron Smith broke the NRL's all-time games record during the 2017 finals series, passing Darren Lockyer's mark when he played his 356th first-grade match, and he became the first and only player to reach 400 career premiership games before retiring after his 430th and final game on Grand Final Day 2020. He captained the Melbourne Storm in every one of his more than 250 games as skipper since taking over the role in 2008, leading the club to three premierships across eight grand final appearances, including a title win in his own 19th and final top-grade season. Smith finished his career as the NRL's all-time leading point-scorer with 2,786 points, a record built from nearly two decades of goal-kicking and playmaking from the hooker position for the same club. His combination of the NRL's all-time games record and his status as the competition's all-time leading point-scorer has made Smith one of the most statistically dominant and durable players in the sport's history.
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