{"id":458444,"date":"2026-02-04T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:11:11","slug":"swans-draftee-out-for-months-in-injury-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458444\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans draftee out for months in injury blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Max King will miss months in a cruel blow for the young Swan\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Max King poses for a photo during Sydney&#8217;s official team photo day on January 27, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY draftee Max King will miss up to six months due to a stress fracture in his back.<\/p>\n<p>King was taken with pick No.49 in last year&#8217;s Telstra AFL Draft as a Swans Academy product.<\/p>\n<p>But in a cruel blow for the 19-year-old, he is set to be sidelined for six months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Max was experiencing some back pain and unfortunately scans yesterday revealed he has developed a stress injury in his lower back,&#8221; Sydney head of AFL football Leon Cameron said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it is disappointing for Max as a young player, he is a very hard worker, and we feel he will do everything he can to get back to full fitness as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Swans will open the 2026 season with a clash against Carlton on March 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max King will miss months in a cruel blow for the young Swan Max King poses for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-458444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458444","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=458444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}