SAM Burgess and James Graham have -already proved they are among the very best in the NRL.
But Canberra hooker Josh Hodgson is the latest Englishman who is winning his place among the game's elite. 
At the start of the season you could have got $67 on Hodgson winning this year's Dally M Medal.
But the clever No.9 is expected to firm further in betting today after opening up a four-point lead after four rounds.
On the back of another brilliant performance in the Raiders' loss to Gold Coast on Saturday, when Hodgson set up two tries with clever dummy-half play, he has moved to 10 points on the Dally M ladder.
Canterbury's Moses Mbye is next on six points, ahead of Aiden Tolman and Greg Inglis on five.
Heading into round four, Johnathan Thurston was still a clear $7 favourite with the TAB ahead of Inglis at $9 and Daly Cherry-Evans at $11, Anthony Milford at $13 and then Hodgson at $15.
Hodgson continues to win praise from everyone in the game, including Immortal Andrew Johns and Brad Fittler.
"That pass when he put (fellow Englishman Elliott Whitehead) over with not a hand laid on him, the deception with his hands and the way he used his eyes to get the defenders was pretty good," Johns said on The Sunday Footy Show."Considering they have got their halves out too, he has taken extra responsibility."