{"id":811411,"date":"2026-07-20T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:05:14","slug":"essendon-star-nate-caddy-cleared-to-face-hawthorn-despite-abrupt-hospital-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811411\/","title":{"rendered":"Essendon star Nate Caddy cleared to face Hawthorn despite abrupt hospital visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Essendon&#8217;s star forward Nate Caddy has been cleared to return to action after being hospitalised with an elevated heart rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\"><a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-07-19\/afl-rd-19-rich-haw-gc-wb-ess-gws\/106923806\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106923806\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caddy was sent to hospital during the Bombers&#8217; win against GWS on Sunday<\/a> but was discharged that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 21-year-old is expected to train with his teammates this week and play against Hawthorn on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;There was some concern in the first quarter when Nate&#8217;s heart rate became elevated,&#8221; Essendon&#8217;s football boss Dan McPherson said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;He was removed from the game and our medical team assessed him at the ground before sending him to hospital for further assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;He was discharged last night and is back at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">McPherson said Caddy, who recently signed a contract extension until the end of 2031, was expected to &#8220;train and play without concern this week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon&#8217;s star forward Nate Caddy has been cleared to return to action after being hospitalised with an elevated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,11231,14426,85],"class_list":["post-811411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-essendon-bombers","tag-nate-caddy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811411","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=811411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}