{"id":709961,"date":"2026-06-02T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:07:09","slug":"injury-news-lewis-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709961\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury news: Lewis Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Injury Report\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Scans confirm ACL damage for defender in VFL return game.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Essendon can confirm Lewis Hayes has re-injured his ACL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">The 21-year-old key defender had a hyperextension incident in the second quarter of his return VFL match on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Despite getting though the game, he reported with knee soreness on Monday morning, and subsequent scans have confirmed damage to his ACL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Essendon&#8217;s AFL General Manager Daniel McPherson said the Club\u2019s focus is on supporting Hayes through his rehab and recovery journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u201cThis is incredibly tough news for Lewis, who has put in a mountain of work and shown incredible commitment and resilience over the past 12 months, following his original ACL injury which occurred during his AFL debut early last season,\u201d McPherson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u201cLewis is an outstanding individual and a highly valued member of our football club, so to suffer another ACL injury after everything he has put into his rehab and recovery is shattering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\u201cHe has attacked every challenge placed in front of him with professionalism and determination, and we have no doubt he will approach this setback the same way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Hayes will meet with specialists in the coming days to determine next steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury Report Scans confirm ACL damage for defender in VFL return game. Essendon can confirm Lewis Hayes has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-709961","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\/709961","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=709961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}