{"id":750242,"date":"2026-06-21T05:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:49:12","slug":"nrl-news-2026-warriors-prop-jackson-ford-leaves-field-with-pectoral-injury-vs-cowboys-state-of-origin-nsw-blues-selection-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750242\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Warriors prop Jackson Ford leaves field with pectoral injury vs Cowboys; State of Origin, NSW Blues selection hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In-form Warriors<\/a> prop and NSW Blues<\/a> hopeful Jackson Ford<\/a> has suffered a crushing blow, forced off with a pectoral injury on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ford, who was sitting near the top of the Dally M<\/a> leaderboard before voting went behind closed doors, has been one of the Warriors\u2019 best performers this season.<\/p>\n

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Jackson Ford leaves the field clutching at his pec.\u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old was considered incredibly unlucky to miss out on a spot in Laurie Daley\u2019s team<\/a> for the first two State of Origin<\/a> matches.<\/p>\n

With spots up for grabs heading into the decider next month, Ford remained a live chance of making his Origin debut before disaster struck against the Cowboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mid-way through the opening half in the first NRL match at One NZ Stadium in Christchurch, the workhorse front-rower got his arm caught awkwardly while making a tackle and immediately clutched at his shoulder.<\/p>\n

Ford signalled to the Warriors bench that he needed to come off and ran off behind the goalposts, heading straight up the tunnel. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s gone, what a shame – he\u2019s had a wonderful start to the season,\u201d Steve Roach said on Fox League commentary. <\/p>\n

It was soon confirmed by sideline commentator Niko Pajarillo that it was a pec concern and Ford would not return against North Queensland.<\/p>\n

Warriors winger Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad grabbed an early double at the state-of-the-art indoor stadium, before the Cowboys bounced back thanks to Scott Drinkwater, who set up a try for Braidon Burns before scoring one of his own.<\/p>\n

Nicoll-Klokstad completed a first-half hat-trick before the break to give the home side the narrow lead heading towards the break and almost had a fourth try, but it was overruled for a forward pass in the lead-up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In-form Warriors prop and NSW Blues hopeful Jackson Ford has suffered a crushing blow, forced off with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-750242","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\/750242","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=750242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}