{"id":408675,"date":"2026-01-12T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408675\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:15:13","slug":"north-melbourne-defender-jackson-archer-suffers-torn-acl-injury-at-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408675\/","title":{"rendered":"North Melbourne defender Jackson Archer suffers torn ACL injury at training"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Melbourne<\/a> defender Jackson Archer will miss the 2026 season after tearing his ACL over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old has had a horrid run with injuries, missing most of 2025 with hamstring and ankle issues.<\/p>\n

Archer has played 26 games for the Roos since being selected under the father-son rule in 2021. <\/p>\n

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Jackson Archer of the Kangaroos.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

He is the son of Kangaroos legend Glenn Archer, who played 311 games for the club, including the 1996 and 1999 premierships.<\/p>\n

Jackson Archer had a promising 2024 season playing as a lockdown defender, but has struggled to get his body right since.<\/p>\n

The Roos have confirmed the injury occurred during the club’s return to training in the new year.<\/p>\n

“The club will continue to support Archer as he meets with the medical team this week to work through his rehab program,” a club statement read.<\/p>\n

Given the timing of the injury, North Melbourne will now have the chance to put him on their inactive list.<\/p>\n

This will allow them to add a player via the supplemental selection period before the start of the season.<\/p>\n

They could also hold onto the list spot until the mid-season draft if they wanted.<\/p>\n

North Melbourne will be hoping to push up the ladder in 2026, after spending the entire 2020s out of the finals race so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne defender Jackson Archer will miss the 2026 season after tearing his ACL over the weekend. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-408675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}