Six Nations predictions: Favourites for top tryscorer and points scorer with French on top

By Joseph Terry

Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Thomas Ramos are the favourites to top the tryscorer and points scorer tables this 2026 Six Nations. 

2025 player of the championship Bielle-Biarrey chases a second consecutive tries award while Ramos looks for a historic fourth straight crown as top scorer. 

Here, Rugby Paper writer Joseph Terry talks over the leading names for the individual awards as French flair has been heavily backed this campaign. 

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The 2026 try scorer contenders

Louis Bielle-Biarrey is the clear favourite to claim a second top tryscorer title at 2/1 with bookmakers Betway, having beaten the single tournament try record in 2025. 

His eight tries last spring earned him player of the championship honours, and his 18 tries in 17 fixtures this season make the Bordeaux speedster the player to beat. 

The 22-year-old even defeated former two-time Olympic bronze medallist sprinter Christophe Lemaitre in a 50-metre race on French television, hitting nearly 40 kilometres per hour. 

Irish hooker Dan Sheehan is the second-best contender at 13/2 and hit form with Leinster before joining the Irish camp, scoring four tries over the last five matches. 

Sheehan will look to improve on his joint-second finish in 2025 alongside Tommy Freeman – Freeman’s odds falling to 10/1 just inside the top five. 

Despite returning to competitive rugby in only January after an MCL knee injury and later knee sprain in the autumn, Théo Attisogbe is third pick at 9/1. 

Attisogbe is on equal odds with England‘s Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, the Exeter Chiefs wing who scored two tries during the Autumn Nations Series.

Prediction: Louis Bielle-Biarrey at 2/1 (Betway)

The leading points scorer picks

Frenchman Thomas Ramos is the top pick to claim a historic fourth consecutive top points scorer award at 4/7. 

Ramos became just the second player to win the award three years straight last campaign, matching Ronan O’Gara’s run from 2005 to 2007. 

The two-time Champions Cup winner with Toulouse has already breached the 200-point mark this season for club and country, and has scored at least 60 points since the 2023 edition – peaking at 84 points that tournament. 

George Ford at 7/2 picked up two plus 10-point performances in the Autumn Nations Series and is a drop goal weapon for the English in a tournament when the margins could be razor-thin. 

Finn Russell, the so-called ‘Lionel Messi of rugby’, is third-favourite at 13/2 – the Scot ice-cold at fierce rivals Gloucester, kicking 15 points last time out. 

Both Irish fly-halves, Sam Prendergast and Harry Byrne are locked together at 12/1; even the oddsmakers are unable to decide who is more likely to regularly start at 10.

Prediction: Thomas Ramos at 4/7 (Betway)

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