The Queensland Maroons will go for a fourth series win in five years on Wednesday evening, but the ever brutal demands of State of Origin mean the player pathways is always going to be explored beyond the current side.
The Queensland side also have some players at the back-end of their Origin careers.
Kurt Capewell could be in his swansong series, Cameron Munster, joking as he may have been after Game 2, indicated he knows his time is closer to the end than the start, and even then, Billy Slater has made it clear during his time coaching he has no hesitation making an enormous call if he thinks it needs to be made.
Queensland do have some excellent young talent on the way through, and others who could well have made an argument to play this year.
Here are the most likely players to debut next year for the Maroons.
4. Jye Gray (South Sydney Rabbitohs, QLD)
The South Sydney Rabbitohs rate Jye Gray so highly that they removed Latrell Mitchell from fullback to put himm there.
The rising star might be small in stature, but he has barely put a foot wrong for the Rabbitohs this year, and will continue to do so through the remaining weeks of the competition.
Gray is a future Origin playerm, even if that role is off the bench, and will likely push for a spot somewhere next year if the form he has displayed this go around in getting the Rabbitohs up the ladder continues.
