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Yeah it's a weird one. The injury was towards the end of January (12 weeks ago). Some scuttlebutt on the other forum and on SEN said 8-12 weeks, but according to the club he had surgery to repair it with no time frame given for a return until after the surgeon had been consulted post-op. There was no update given after that.

Then at the start of March he was spotted on the training track, presumably doing skills work, while they had 3-4 months listed on the injury report... 3 months being the bye and 4 being about Round 18.

Two weeks ago they said he'd start running in 2-3 weeks.

Now the injury report says 9-10 weeks... which also takes us to the bye in Round 14.

Guessing that it's probably a month of running ("building up progressions"), a couple of weeks of full training and a couple of weeks in the VFL at 50% or 70% game time or whatever, then he should be medically fit.

Whether he actually plays a game at AFL level this year remains to be seen... but we might see a debut towards the end of the year if they don't put him on the inactive list.