{"id":619687,"date":"2026-04-20T18:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:20:26","slug":"nrl-2026-devastating-payne-haas-blow-as-another-broncos-star-corey-jenson-hospitalised-with-clot-on-lung-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619687\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Devastating Payne Haas blow as another Broncos star Corey Jenson hospitalised with clot on lung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broncos forward Payne Haas will spend the next six to eight weeks on the sidelines after suffering a Grade 3 MCL tear in the Broncos\u2019 gritty win over the Tigers on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/payne-haas-suffers-knee-injury-as-broncos-injury-nightmare-worsens\/news-story\/c7fa66cd1a43d87063d5ca520e284844\" title=\"www.news.com.au\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"c7fa66cd1a43d87063d5ca520e284844\" data-tgev-label=\"sport\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haas\u2019 knee was twisted in a tackle from Royce Hunt <\/a>on the half-hour mark, and the hulking prop immediately grimaced in pain and reached for his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of every round of the NRL Premiership LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?extcamp=ncaeditoriallink-ptr-nca-lnk-awr-acq-var-kyo&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old tried to run it off but was unsuccessful, coming from the field moments later with Broncos medical staff ruling him out quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday, the Broncos revealed the true extent of his injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Brisbane Broncos can confirm Payne Haas suffered a Grade 3 MCL injury in Saturday night\u2019s game against the Wests Tigers,\u201d the Broncos said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on early medical assessments, Haas is expected to be sidelined for approximately 6-8 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means Haas will miss at least State of Origin Game 1 for the NSW Blues on May 27 and is no certainty to be fit for Game 2 on June 17 either, which is in eight weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>It is a devastating blow for both NSW and the Broncos, who will have to deal without the best prop in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Jensen hospitalised with clot on lung<\/p>\n<p>The bad news for Brisbane stars doesn\u2019t stop there either with fellow forward Corey Jensen rushed to hospital with a blood clot on his lung.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen suffered a pulmonary embolism after the Tigers match and he is currently under observation in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>While his timeframe for recovery is not yet clear it is expected he will also miss the next several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in more bad news for Brisbane Kotoni Staggs suffered a plantar fascia strain and Jesse Arthars teared his interosseous membrane in his ankle.<\/p>\n<p>It means Brisbane could be without as many as 12 players for the round 8 clash, adding to the mounting injury list which includes Ben Hunt (knee), Reece Walsh (cheekbone), Pat Carrigan (suspended), Blake Mozer (jaw) and Billy Walters (knee).<\/p>\n<p>In one bit of good news for the Broncos, hooker Cory Paix is expected to return against the Bulldogs after missing the last game due to concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/brisbane\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Brisbane\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos forward Payne Haas will spend the next six to eight weeks on the sidelines after suffering a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,244438,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-619687","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-ncaeditorialkayo","13":"tag-nrl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619687","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=619687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}