{"id":414396,"date":"2026-01-15T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414396\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:12:15","slug":"hawthorn-hawks-star-will-day-shoulder-injury-at-training-video-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414396\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn Hawks star Will Day shoulder injury at training video, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawthorn<\/a> star Will Day appears to have suffered a significant shoulder injury at training on Thursday. <\/p>\n

Vision posted on social media shows the midfielder coming from the field with two trainers, with a potentially dislocated shoulder, using his top as a sling. <\/p>\n

It would be an enormous setback for Day, who has battled long-term injuries across his career.<\/p>\n

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Will Day injured at Hawthorn training.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

A similar injury to the same shoulder ended his 2024 campaign, adding to the concern.<\/p>\n

He then missed the end of the 2025 season with a navicular injury in his foot.<\/p>\n

Day had returned to full training on Monday, seemingly overcoming the nasty footy injury, but has now hurt the shoulder again.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old has played 76 games for Hawthorn since being selected in the 2019 draft.<\/p>\n

He has emerged as an elite midfielder, and is contracted through to the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

Day will be incredibly important to Hawthorn’s premiership hopes as the key piece of their midfield unit, particularly after failing to land Essendon star Zach Merrett in the trade period.<\/p>\n

Injury carnage has been the story around the AFL<\/a> since players returned in January.<\/p>\n

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Jesse Motlop of the Blues is likely out for the season.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Carlton’s Jesse Motlop<\/a> and North Melbourne’s Jackson Archer<\/a> suffered torn ACLs, while Collingwood veterans Jeremy Howe, Darcy Moore and Dan McStay have also had setbacks.<\/p>\n

GWS stars Toby Greene, Jesse Hogan and Clayton Oliver are all on modified programs after suffering injuries, while Max Gawn fractured a finger at Melbourne training.<\/p>\n

Hawthorn will face GWS in Opening Round to kick off their 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn star Will Day appears to have suffered a significant shoulder injury at training on Thursday. Vision posted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-414396","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\/414396","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=414396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}