\n Jackson Archer will miss the entire 2026 season due to injury\n <\/p>\n
Jackson Archer leaves the field during North Melbourne’s game against Essendon in R8, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
NORTH Melbourne has suffered a blow to start its 2026 campaign, with youngster Jackson Archer to miss the season after suffering a knee injury on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Archer, the son of club great Glenn, tore his ACL in training and follow-up scans over the weekend have shown he will require a knee reconstruction that will rule him out for the entire 2026 season.<\/p>\n
It comes only days after the club returned to training last Thursday and continues a horror injury run for the 23-year-old, who played just three games last season after hamstring and ankle injuries ruined his campaign as well as a controversial suspension early in the year.<\/p>\n
Archer, who made his debut in 2022, has played 26 games for the Roos in the past four seasons.<\/p>\n
Jackson Archer during North Melbourne’s game against Port Adelaide in R7, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
North Melbourne confirmed the setback on Monday.<\/p>\n
“The club will continue to support Archer as he meets with the medical team this week to work through his rehab program,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
North will have until February 20 to work through its options to replace Archer in the pre-season supplemental selection period window, with the promising defender able to be moved to the inactive list to open a spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Archer will miss the entire 2026 season due to injury Jackson Archer leaves the field during North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-421060","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","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421060","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=421060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}