1. Darius Boyd was born on 17 July 1987 and is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played fullback, wing, centre and five-eighth for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League and has played for Australia at international level and State of Origin for Queensland.
Darius Boyd has won the 2006 NRL Grand Final with the Broncos and the 2010 NRL Grand Final with the Dragons.
Darius Boyd is a Queensland State of Origin and Prime Minister's XIII representative.
Darius Boyd was born at the Gold Coast Hospital, in Queensland, Australia on 17 July 1987.
Darius Boyd was raised by his single mother throughout most of his childhood.
Darius Boyd began playing junior football at a young age for the Parkwood Sharks, which led to playing at halftime during a Gold Coast Seagulls match in 1993.
Darius Boyd attended Robina State High School during this time but switched schools to the famed rugby league nursery, Palm Beach Currumbin High School, in Year 10.
In 2005, while playing for Palm Beach Currumbin, Darius Boyd was selected at fullback for the Australian Schoolboys team.
Darius Boyd then debuted for the Burleigh Bears in the Queensland Cup.
Darius Boyd played in 27 matches and scored 11 tries in an impressive debut year in the NRL.
Darius Boyd finished the 2007 NRL season with him playing in 22 matches and scoring 7 tries.
In May 2008, Darius Boyd started to receive attention from other clubs as he was off-contract at the end of the year.
On 20 August 2008, Darius Boyd signed a 3-year contract with the Dragons starting in 2009, following teammate Nick Emmett and coach Wayne Bennett.
Darius Boyd finished the 2008 NRL season with him playing in 24 matches and scoring 13 tries.
On 16 October 2008, Darius Boyd was called up to the Australian 2008 World Cup squad due to teammate Justin Hodges being ruled out with a shoulder injury.
Darius Boyd only played in 1 match in the World Cup tournament.
Darius Boyd was selected in the Queensland squad for the 2009 State of Origin series, playing in all 3 matches and scoring 1 try in the record-breaking 4th consecutive series win.
Darius Boyd finished his first year with the Dragons with 2 tries in 22 matches.
Darius Boyd played on the wing for Queensland in all three matches of the 2010 State of Origin series, scoring a try in each match to become the series' top try-scorer.
Towards the end of the season, Darius Boyd was one of the favourites for the Dally M Medal, having had a sizeable lead in points over the previous year's winner Jarryd Hayne and Sydney Roosters player Todd Carney when voting went behind closed doors after Round 16.
Darius Boyd ended up finishing third, 2 points behind eventual winner Todd Carney and 1 point behind Wests Tigers hooker Robbie Farah.
Darius Boyd finished his successful 2010 NRL season with him playing in 25 matches and scoring 2 tries.
On 4 October 2010, Darius Boyd was selected in the Australia Kangaroos 24-man squad for the 2010 Four Nations.
Darius Boyd won the 2010 RLIF Fullback of the Year award in the off-season.
On 30 March 2011, Wayne Bennett announced he would not coach the Dragons in 2012, hinting that Darius Boyd may leave the club as well.
On 9 June 2011, Darius Boyd signed a 4-year contract with the Newcastle Knights starting in 2012.
Darius Boyd played in all three matches of the 2011 State of Origin series in the Maroons 6th consecutive series win.
Darius Boyd finished the 2011 NRL season with him playing in 22 matches and scoring 9 tries.
Darius Boyd was selected in the Australian squad for the 2011 Four Nations tournament held in the United Kingdom.
Darius Boyd played on the wing for Queensland in all three matches of the 2012 State of Origin series, scoring 3 tries in the Maroons 7th consecutive series win.
Darius Boyd finished his first year with the Knights with him playing in 22 matches and scoring 3 tries.
Darius Boyd played all three games and was the top try scorer with 3 in the 2013 State of Origin series in which Queensland extended their record for consecutive series victories to eight.
Darius Boyd played in 26 matches and scored 11 tries for the Knights.
Darius Boyd played on the wing in all 3 matches of the 2014 State of Origin series, scoring 3 tries in the Maroons first series defeat since 2005.
On 23 July 2014, Darius Boyd admitted himself to a mental health clinic to treat depression.
Darius Boyd didn't make a return to the Knights for the rest of the year as he continued to focus on his recovery.
On 31 October 2014, Darius Boyd was released from the final year of his Knights contract.
On 21 November 2014, Darius Boyd signed a three-year contract with the Brisbane Broncos, returning to the club where he made his debut in 2006.
Darius Boyd finished the 2014 NRL season with him playing in 14 matches and scoring 3 tries.
On 5 December 2015, Darius Boyd ruptured his Achilles tendon during pre-season training; this injury was expected to keep him out of action for at least six months, possibly seeing him sidelined for the entire 2015 season.
Queensland coach, Mal Meninga, showing faith in Darius Boyd to perform in Origin despite not playing the majority of the early 2015 NRL season.
Darius Boyd played in all 3 matches and scored a try for Queensland in the 2015 State of Origin series.
Darius Boyd finished his return year with the Brisbane Broncos with him playing in 18 matches and scoring 3 tries in the 2015 NRL season.
On 1 February, Darius Boyd was named in the Broncos' 2016 NRL Auckland Nines squad.
Darius Boyd finished the 2016 NRL season with him playing in 25 matches and scoring 9 tries for the Broncos.
On 20 September 2016, Darius Boyd was added to the Kangaroos 2016 Four Nations train-on squad.
On 4 October 2016, Darius Boyd was selected in the Australian Kangaroos Final 24-man squad for the tournament.
On 7 October 2016, Darius Boyd was awarded with the Paul Morgan Medal as being the Broncos best-and-fairest player of the season.
However, in Game 2 Darius Boyd was switched to centre to accommodate Slater's return to the fullback position.
In Round 26 against the North Queensland Cowboys, Darius Boyd injured his hamstring.
Scans revealed bad news for Brisbane with Darius Boyd ruled out for the next 2 finals matches.
Darius Boyd finished his 2017 NRL season with 18 matches and 3 tries for the Broncos.
On 26 October, Darius Boyd extended his contract with the Broncos on a four-year deal, keeping him at Red Hill until at least the 2021 season.
On 11 June 2018, Darius Boyd announced that he had retired from playing in representative matches after missing out on selection for Queensland.
Darius Boyd finished the 2018 NRL season with him playing of the 25 matches and scoring 5 tries for the Broncos.
In Round 8 against the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Darius Boyd played his 300th NRL career match, playing his milestone game against his old mentor, Rabbitohs coach Wayne Bennett who Darius Boyd spent his whole career being coached by him until the 2019 season when Bennett was given the sack by the Broncos and swapped clubs with Anthony Seibold.
Darius Boyd has copped plenty of criticism for his form in the early rounds of the 2019 season, practically his defence and leadership.
On 30 August 2019, Darius Boyd was selected at Wing for the Queensland Maroons Team of the Decade.
On 6 March 2020, Darius Boyd announced that he would retire at the end of the 2020 NRL season despite having one year left to run on his contract.
Darius Boyd was the final member from the club's 2006 premiership team to retire.
In round 20 of the 2020 NRL season, Darius Boyd sustained a career-ending injury against rivals North Queensland at Suncorp Stadium.
On 4 October 2024, Darius Boyd revealed that he had departed the Broncos after the exit of former coach Kevin Walters.
Darius Boyd had been working with the teams outside backs as a mentor.
On 5 February 2025, the Queensland Maroons announced that Darius Boyd had been named the coach of the Queensland Under 19 men's team.
In 2014, he spent three weeks in a private psychiatric hospital, located in Western Sydney, being treated for depression, after his wife Kayla Darius Boyd temporarily left him.
In 2017, Kayla Darius Boyd had a miscarriage before falling pregnant four months later and terminating that pregnancy because she "wasn't ready".
The Darius Boyd's first daughter was born on September 26,2015.
Darius Boyd is currently featuring on the third season of the Seven Network's reality quasi-military training television programme SAS Australia: Who Dares Wins, which premiered on 21 February 2022.