{"id":422939,"date":"2026-01-19T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:07:30","slug":"stevens-suffers-broken-rib-as-north-melbourne-steps-up-pre-season-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422939\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevens suffers broken rib as North Melbourne steps up pre-season &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The toll from a tough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> pre-season continues, with North Melbourne youngster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/river-stevens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">River Stevens<\/a> sent to the hospital after a heavy hit at training.<\/p>\n<p>Tests revealed a broken rib, and no more serious damage, after the collision on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens was on light duties on the track at Arden St on Monday and will be nursed back into the full program.<\/p>\n<p>The son of club legend Anthony was Pick 67 in the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> draft.<\/p>\n<p>The injury came in the same session as a hamstring injury to luckless Kangaroo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/brayden-george\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden George<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>George is set to miss at least three weeks of training.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The toll from a tough AFL pre-season continues, with North Melbourne youngster River Stevens sent to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-422939","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\/422939","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=422939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}