Northampton Saints and England flanker, Henry Pollock, has been nominated for the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year award.
The Saints Academy graduate made his senior Club debut aged just 17 in 2022. After a breakthrough campaign with the men in Green, Black and Gold in the 2024/25 season, where he scored ten tries in 22 appearances, he picked up the PREM Breakthrough Player of the Year award in June 2025 and was also nominated for the Investec Champions Cup Player of the Year.
His first senior cap came from the bench in England’s final fixture of the 2025 Six Nations, where the 20-year-old scored two tries in a 14-68 victory in Cardiff, and after just 30 minutes of Test rugby to his name, he was selected as the youngest player on the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia.
Pollock has shone on both the international and domestic stage and is joined by fellow nominees: New Zealand’s Fabian Holland, South Africa’s Ethan Hooker and Australia’s Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii on the shortlist for the award.
Each nominee has been voted by the World Rugby Awards panel, comprised of former legends of the game, Jacques Burger, Fiona Coghlan, Victor Matfield, Drew Mitchell, Ugo Monye, Sergio Parisse, Kieran Read and Blaine Scully.
The recipients of the World Rugby Awards 2025 men’s categories will be revealed on Saturday, 22 November.