{"id":696438,"date":"2026-05-26T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696438\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:00:17","slug":"qscan-injury-report-lions-receive-encouraging-news-on-injury-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696438\/","title":{"rendered":"Qscan Injury Report: Lions receive encouraging news on injury front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                It is predominantly positive news on the injury front for the Brisbane Lions with a premiership pair set to return, while two key forwards are progressing well.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1343\/jarrod-berry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Berry<\/a>\u00a0and defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1775\/noah-answerth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Answerth<\/a>\u00a0are expected to return this weekend after they trained on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Both players will train again on Thursday to put their hand up for selection.<\/p>\n<p>Key forward duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/864\/eric-hipwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Hipwood<\/a>\u00a0(knee) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1718\/oscar-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Allen<\/a>\u00a0(foot) are both showing promising progress from their respective injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Hipwood is closing in on being back playing within the next two to three weeks, while Allen continues to recover well with his return to play sitting at seven to nine weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It is also encouraging signs for defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1661\/jack-payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Payne<\/a>\u00a0(knee) who has started running and building strength.<\/p>\n<p>While veteran premiership defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/7\/dayne-zorko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayne Zorko<\/a>\u00a0(quad) has not been able to tick the boxes required to return and will be given more time to improve and train accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>                                Concussion<\/p>\n<p>                                Test<\/p>\n<p>                                Calf<\/p>\n<p>                                Test<\/p>\n<p>                                Hamstring<\/p>\n<p>                                2 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Quad Tightness<\/p>\n<p>                                2 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                2-3 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Calf<\/p>\n<p>                                3-4 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Foot<\/p>\n<p>                                4-5 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Ankle<\/p>\n<p>                                5-7 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Foot<\/p>\n<p>                                7-9 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Shoulder<\/p>\n<p>                                8-10 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                TBC<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Concussion\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Test\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Calf\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Test\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Hamstring\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 2 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Quad Tightness\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 2 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 2-3 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Calf\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 3-4 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Foot\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 4-5 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Ankle\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 5-7 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Foot\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 7-9 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Shoulder\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 8-10 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: TBC\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is predominantly positive news on the injury front for the Brisbane Lions with a premiership pair set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-696438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696438","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=696438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}