\n First-year Tiger Sam Cumming will miss at least the first month of the season\n <\/p>\n
Sam Cumming celebrates a goal during Richmond’s match simulation against Essendon on February 20, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
PRIZED Richmond pick Sam Cumming has been ruled out for at least the first month of the season after injuring his shoulder again in the AAMI Community Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old suffered another subluxation of his right shoulder against Melbourne on Friday, following the same issue in August last year in the SANFL.<\/p>\n
Richmond is hopeful a four-week strengthening block will be sufficient before a return, but the club will keep monitoring, with surgery still a possibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A shoulder reconstruction would wipe out up to four months of Cumming’s debut season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Richmond selected Cumming at pick No.7 in last November’s Telstra AFL Draft, before taking Sam Grlj with the next pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sam Cumming and Samuel Grlj after being selected by Richmond as part of the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft at Marvel Stadium on November 19, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Cumming spent the first half of the pre-season in the fluoro non-contact hat at Punt Road but then stood out in match simulation across January and February to put his hand up for a round one debut against Carlton next Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But now the North Adelaide product will start the season on the sidelines alongside 2024 first-round picks Taj Hotton, Josh Smillie and Tom Sims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First-year Tiger Sam Cumming will miss at least the first month of the season Sam Cumming celebrates a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-514322","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\/514322","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=514322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}