Huddersfield Giants have transferred winger Ben Blackmore to Featherstone Rovers with immediate effect.
The 21-year-old, who leaves for an undisclosed fee, has played one Super league game in 2014 and was not to be offered a contract for the 2015 season.
Giants managing director Richard Thewlis said: “Ben played for Batley Bulldogs at the weekend and impressed his Featherstone opponents to the point that they felt he could add to their 2014, 2015 and 2016 teams.
“It would have been unfair for us to stand in his way as we had already determined that we couldn’t offer him a place in our squad.
“He has a great opportunity to remain full-time with an ambitious club at a level where he will get week-in week-out gametime and I am sure will continue to improve.
“Wing is an area that we feel well covered in and while you can never have too much depth in all areas, salary cap regulations and players’ desires to play every week sometimes means players and clubs have to part ways when ideally you would want to keep the player on your roster.
“The approach from Featherstone came a little bit out of left field but they are very ambitious.”
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