Richmond ruckman Toby Nankervis will miss the next chunk of the season after spraining his PCL.
The Tigers revealed late on Wednesday that the 26-year-old sustained the injury early in their side’s win over Adelaide on Sunday, with Nankervis out for the “medium term”.
"Toby came off soon after (sustaining contact at the first centre bounce), and his knee was quite sore, and he was hobbling,” Richmond Physical Performance Manager Peter Burge said in a club statement.
"The doctor did some testing and those sorts of things and suspected that there may have been a little bit of a PCL sprain, but he was good enough to go back out and play at that stage.
"He played the whole game out and was a little bit sore, but our fingers were crossed obviously post-game that he would wake up feeling alright the next day and that there was not too much going on.
"But, he had some scans and definitely sprained his PCL, which is going to require a couple of weeks out of the game, just for it to glue up and for him to do a little bit of strength work around that and get his stability back to normal.
"We will have a better idea in the next week or two about his return to play, but at this stage, it is probably a medium-term injury."
Richmond also revealed that defender David Astbury will miss this weekend’s game against Essendon as a result of Achilles soreness, while in better news midfielder Shane Edwards is “probable” for the much-anticipated game.