{"id":632329,"date":"2026-04-26T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632329\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:22:15","slug":"storm-injury-update-confirms-star-will-miss-game-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632329\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm injury update confirms star will miss game time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/melbourne-storm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Storm<\/a> has provided an update on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/jahrome-hughes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jahrome Hughes<\/a> after concerns of an injury during their loss against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the match Hughes looked uncomfortable with a wrist issue, and was left wincing in pain on the ground at stages of the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The star halfback left the field in the second half with wrist soreness and symptoms of a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Early assessments from the club show that there is no significant injury to his wrist, and will be further assessed throughout next week.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes failed his HIA on Saturday and will be placed in the mandatory 11-day stand-down period.<\/p>\n<p>It will see the Kiwi international miss their important clash with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a> on Friday in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm has lost six matches in a row, their worst losing streak ever, which has overtaken a record that was set in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes being sidelined is a massive loss, with gun utility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/tyran-wishart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyran Wishart<\/a> expected to take over the role as chief playmaker for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a> clash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Storm coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/bellamy-makes-scathing-assessment-of-embarrassing-storm-effort-233049\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Bellamy labelled their performance against the Rabbitohs as &#8220;embarrassing&#8221; in the post-match press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Storm sitting at two wins and six losses, they are scrambling to look for an answer to get their season back on track.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The Melbourne Storm has provided an update on Jahrome Hughes after concerns of an injury during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-632329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632329","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=632329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}