It was fitting rugby league’s $13 million man Dylan Brown made his debut for his new club in the United States – the land of hope and dreams, of hype and excess.

How Brown found himself the custodian of the largest contract, in overall dollars, in rugby league history is anyone’s guess.

And the best of those guesses is that a desperate Newcastle Knights, languishing in nowheresville, were simply hoping he would turn into the champion many thought he would be when a teenager.

Then they went to the land of excess and threw everything at him in an attempt to change the narrative in the rugby league mad town.

However it happened, it happened, so here we are and there he is in Knights colours, picking up more than a $50,000 a match to reinvent himself as a halfback.

It’s near impossible to win a premiership without a top halfback; during the past nine seasons, the premiership halfbacks have been Adam Reynolds, Nathan Cleary, Jahrome Hughes and Cooper Cronk.

Knights halfback Dylan Brown comes away from Las Vegas with a pass mark.Credit: Getty Images

Halfback is not a position you can drift in and out of like Brown did when he held down the No.6 jersey at Parramatta on a part-time basis.

Part-time in that he only ever played part of the time during games.

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