{"id":688672,"date":"2026-05-23T03:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688672\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:27:15","slug":"afl-2026-tom-sims-knee-injury-in-vfl-acl-injury-updates-richmond-tigers-injury-list-adem-yze-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688672\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026: Tom Sims knee injury in VFL, ACL, injury updates, Richmond Tigers injury list, Adem Yze, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tigers youngster Tom Sims has gone down with a suspected ACL blow in the VFL in \u201cdevastating scenes\u201d to continue Richmond\u2019s injury nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Sims slipped and landed awkwardly as both legs went outwards in an innocuous incident late in the second quarter of the Tigers\u2019 VFL clash with Essendon on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The 20-year old, playing in his first game in 286 days after a brutal injury run, was left distraught in tears on the ground as play had to be stopped while a stretcher came out.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779017096_680_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sims was eventually helped from the ground by trainers while being consoled by teammates. <\/p>\n<p>Richmond coach Adem Yze said on SEN the initial fears are an ACL injury as they await the results of scans. <\/p>\n<p>Tom Sims went down with a knee injury.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately it\u2019s not looking good,\u201d Yze said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe VFL doctors had a look in it and the initial diagnosis might be an ACL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s obviously gone through a fair bit over the pre-season. So they are the highs and lows of footy. We had a great win last night and then he obviously gets some devastating news today. So our thoughts are with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You feel for Brad and Essendon&#8217; | 10:40<\/p>\n<p>Yze watched on from the stands at Windy Hill to sour the AFL side\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/tough-bugger-tigers-coach-reveals-star-couldnt-talk-after-nasty-throat-injury\/news-story\/5d92f21036558a52863af90b96dda2b1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">second win for the season in the Dreamtime at the \u2018G match some 12 hours earlier<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s in a lot of pain, that is not good. He\u2019s in a lot of distress,\u201d Fox Footy caller Ben Waterworth said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevastating scenes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering the number of injury setbacks this Richmond list has had this year. Specifically Tom Sims, who\u2019s had to wait a long time to get back on the field, managed minutes today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShocking scenes here for the Richmond footy club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Pick 28 played 11 games in his debut 2025 season that was cut short due to a shoulder dislocation, before a foot issue kept the forward sidelined throughout the pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Lynch (larynx) and Jonty Faull (concussion) added to Richmond\u2019s injury woes on Thursday night ahead of next Saturday\u2019s SCG clash with Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers had 18 payers in their casualty ward going into Round 11, with concerns at one stage they might struggle to field a team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tigers youngster Tom Sims has gone down with a suspected ACL blow in the VFL in \u201cdevastating scenes\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9011,638,64,63,55,639,684,3423,100209,47901,79357,667,5088,207479,147322,3512,9015,672,219715,85,245689],"class_list":["post-688672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adam-yze","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-brutal-injury-run","tag-casualty-ward","tag-emotional-scenes","tag-footy-club","tag-injury-list","tag-injury-nightmare","tag-injury-setbacks","tag-knee-injury","tag-richmond-coach","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-shoulder-dislocation","tag-sports","tag-tigers-youngster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688672","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=688672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}