{"id":619354,"date":"2026-04-20T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:47:30","slug":"brisbane-broncos-injury-list-grows-with-payne-haas-to-miss-up-to-eight-weeks-and-corey-jensen-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619354\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Broncos injury list grows, with Payne Haas to miss up to eight weeks, and Corey Jensen in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Brisbane&#8217;s injury woes have gone beyond crisis point, with prop Corey Jensen in hospital with a blood clot in his lung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Jensen flew home after the 21-20 win over Wests Tigers and was admitted to hospital in Brisbane with a pulmonary embolism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 32-year-old is in the best of care. His recovery time is unclear at this stage, but he is expected to miss several weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fellow Prop Payne Haas was injured in the first half of the clash in Campbelltown and scans revealed a grade-three MCL, meaning he will miss six to eight weeks of action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">That is dire news for the Broncos and also NSW, who will be without Haas for the State of Origin opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fullback Jesse Arthars was injured in the first half of the clash with the Tigers and has been diagnosed with what the Broncos in a statement said was a &#8220;tear to his interosseous membrane&#8221; in his leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Centre Kotoni Staggs played with injury through the Tigers match, but scans revealed a plantar fascia strain to a foot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Broncos are unsure when Staggs and Arthars will be fit to play again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Brisbane host Canterbury on Friday night and the make-up of their side is in flux, with 13 players either ruled out or in doubt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Hooker Cory Paix will return from a one-week concussion absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">If Arthars is ruled out, fullback Hayze Perham is in the mix to start against his former club after doing a good job off the bench when Arthars was injured against the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Prop Va&#8217;a Semu, who was named on the bench but did not play against the Tigers, is in line for his NRL debut, while 19-year-old centre Antonio Verhoeven is a logical replacement for Staggs if he is scratched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane&#8217;s injury woes have gone beyond crisis point, with prop Corey Jensen in hospital with a blood clot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,5366,22331,12979,761,762,158,13390,159,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-619354","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-broncos","11":"tag-corey-jensen","12":"tag-injuries","13":"tag-national-rugby-league","14":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","15":"tag-nrl","16":"tag-payne-haas","17":"tag-rugby-league","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619354","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=619354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}