Injury-hit Giants bring in Leeds trio on loan

Riley Lumb during a Leeds Rhinos pre-season game with his mouth openImage source, SWPix
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Riley Lumb has been kept out of the Leeds Rhinos team this season by Maika Sivo and Ryan Hall

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Injury-hit Huddersfield Giants have signed three players on loan from Leeds Rhinos to bolster their depleted squad.

Winger Riley Lumb, centre Ned McCormack and loose forward Presley Cassell will all be available for the Giants' Super League game at Bradford Bulls on Friday.

Lumb, 21, scored 10 tries in 17 Super League games in 2025 for Leeds, while McCormack, also 21, and 19-year-old Cassell both have first-team experience.

"They will help our head coach Luke Robinson in giving him options to pick from in a time where we have been blighted by injury, so that we are able to pick from a competitive squad to face Bradford," said Giants director of rugby Andy Kelly.

Huddersfield are bottom of Super League having lost all four games so far and last week stated that they had 16 first-team players unavailable.