Exeter Chiefs confirm the seventh player departure ahead of next season

Exeter Chiefs prop Sam Nixon is the seventh confirmed departure from the Premiership club ahead of next season.

The prop will join French PROD2 club Grenoble on a two-year deal and told Exeter's club website that it has been an 'absolute pleasure' to pull on the club's jersey.

The 25-year-old prop moved to the Chiefs ahead of the 2021/22 season from Bayonne and was quickly thrust into the fray by Rob Baxter, making his first team debut in the Gallagher Premiership clash away to Leicester Tigers.

Since then, Nixon has also gone on to feature for the Devon club in both the Heineken Champions Cup and Premiership Rugby Cup, as well as the Premiership, amassing ten appearances for the club.

"It has been an absolute pleasure for me to pull on the Chiefs jersey," he said.

"The club, the people and the supporters have been fantastic from day one and even though it will only have been a short stay, it's been an incredible experience for me."

Nixon joins Jonny Hill, Tom O'Flaherty, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Jack Walsh, Sam Skinner and Don Armand in departing the club at the end of the season.