{"id":678729,"date":"2026-05-18T14:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:11:51","slug":"nrl-news-2026-broncos-forward-jordan-riki-sidelined-with-foot-injury-set-for-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678729\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Broncos forward Jordan Riki sidelined with foot injury, set for surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane<\/a>‘s premiership defence has taken another hit, with star back-rower Jordan Riki<\/a> set for a stint on the sidelines with a foot injury.<\/p>\n

Riki has been dealing with the issue in recent weeks and the club confirmed on Monday night he would undergo surgery.<\/p>\n

It’s expected the 26-year-old Kiwi gun will miss at least a month of action.<\/p>\n

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“Jordan Riki will undergo foot surgery on Tuesday morning to help relieve plantar fascia discomfort he has been managing in recent weeks” a statement said.<\/p>\n

“A return-to-play timeline will be determined following surgery.”<\/p>\n

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Jordan Riki is set to be sidelined.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Riki has played every game for the Broncos this season, averaging 106 run metres and 39 tackles for the defending NRL premiers.<\/p>\n

He will join a stack of last year’s grand final-winning team on the sidelines, with the likes of Payne Haas<\/a>, Deine Mariner<\/a>, Brendan Piakura and Corey Jensen out injured.<\/p>\n

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Haas is due back in round 14 but would potentially go straight into the NSW Blues side once he is available to feature in the State of Origin series.<\/p>\n

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Ben Hunt, Reece Walsh and Adam Reynolds have all spent time out injured this season<\/a>, while both Kotoni Staggs<\/a> and Pat Carrigan<\/a> have been sidelined due to suspension.<\/p>\n

Brisbane have won five games and lost six coming out of Magic Round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane‘s premiership defence has taken another hit, with star back-rower Jordan Riki set for a stint on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-678729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678729","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=678729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}