\n The latest injury news on Richmond youngster Taj Hotton.\n <\/p>\n
Richmond youngster Taj Hotton will enter a rehabilitation phase after the Club discovered bone stress in his hip.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old, who was a strong performer in last week\u2019s match simulation against Essendon, reported hip soreness following the game, with scans revealing the bone stress.<\/p>\n
Richmond High Performance Manager, Ben Serpell, said that while the Club would have a clearer picture of the injury\u2019s timeline in the coming weeks, Hotton was set to miss some football.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaj will begin modified weight bearing across the next 10 days to two weeks, before starting a slow progression back into running,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe anticipate that it will be approximately six to eight weeks before he is back running and possibly four months before he is available for selection.\u201d<\/p>\n
Serpell said that Hotton had a diligent and managed off-season and pre-season, with the Club mindful of his loads following his recent ACL injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaj has done some really strong conditioning over both the off-season and the pre-season, and we were really pleased with how he was placed for this season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know his professionalism will continue across this rehabilitation phase, and we will support him through that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hotton played seven consecutive AFL games to finish his debut season last year, after returning from an ACL injury in Round 13 of the VFL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest injury news on Richmond youngster Taj Hotton. Richmond youngster Taj Hotton will enter a rehabilitation phase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-500704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500704","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=500704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}