The Broncos may have got the two points against the Gold Coast Titans in their blockbuster derby, but it has come at a cost, with Reece Walsh suffering a suspected broken cheekbone and a concussion.<\/p>\n
While Brisbane skipper Adam Reynolds picked up a groin injury and had to be replaced by Ben Hunt just before the half-hour mark, in Brisbane\u2019s 26-12 win over the Titans on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Michael Maguire\u2019s troubles would soon get even worse as Walsh got a tackle all wrong in the closing seconds of the first half.<\/p>\n
The superstar fullback got his head in the wrong spot trying to stop Kurtis Morrin, which left him sprawled out on the ground.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old was taken off for a concussion test looking worse for wear.<\/p>\n
But it never even got that far with the independent doctor intervening and ruling him out of the match after deeming the Broncos No. 1 had shown clear and obvious signs of concussion (Category 1 HIA).<\/p>\n
It was a terrible end to Walsh\u2019s 100th NRL match, in which he scored after just two minutes of play.<\/p>\n
Walsh will now enter NRL\u2019s concussion protocol with an associated 11-day stand-down period, meaning he will also miss Brisbane\u2019s next match.<\/p>\n
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However, he could be out far longer with Ben Hunt revealing post-match Walsh may have broke his cheekbone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think \u2018Reyno\u2019 is too bad, he will go for scans, but I just got told \u2018Reecey\u2019 broke his cheekbone, so that could be a few weeks,\u201d Hunt told Fox League.<\/p>\n
The Broncos No.1 took to Snapchat shortly after the match to share a video with a green whistle in hospital. It was quickly deleted. <\/p>\n
Walsh has fractured his cheekbone twice before in 2023 and 2024 and if he has done so again, he could face between three and six weeks on the sidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broncos may have got the two points against the Gold Coast Titans in their blockbuster derby, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-585172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585172","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=585172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}