“Apparently, he can heal really quickly with the pins and the clips and he can make a full recovery which is fantastic. “They put pins and certain little clips in that stay inside your knee and inside your body. “I asked our team doctor because I couldn’t get how you would piece it back together. “He put his body on the line on Sunday afternoon and I think he broke his kneecap in 10 different places in the end, it was a pretty brutal injury. “Obviously, it’s really disappointing for him, he’s had a really tough run with injuries.
“It certainly was one of those collision injuries that when he went down everyone stopped, you could feel the tension in the air,” Rodski told SEN Breakfast. On Thursday, Melbourne Storm chief executive Justin Rodski confirmed that Papenhuyzen had effectively shattered his kneecap, with the bone broken in 10 different places. “Yeah, it just seems to keep these injuries happening, it’s obviously disappointing.” “He wouldn’t be back I’d probably imagine. “He’s got a broken kneecap,” he explained. Speaking to reporters in the post-match press conference, Storm coach Craig Bellamy confirmed Papenhuyzen’s season was over. He was later taken to hospital before undergoing surgery on Monday. Papenhuyzen, who was unable to put any weight on his right leg, received treatment from team medics before retiring to the sheds in agony.
Stream every game of every round of the 2022 NRL Telstra Premiership Season Live & Ad-Break Free During Play on Kayo. The 24-year-old suffered the injury in the 18th minute of the Round 18 clash following a heavy head-on tackle with Raiders captain Jack Wighton at the 40-metre line. Papenhuyzen was carried off AAMI Park after suffering a broken knee cap during last weekend’s four-point loss to the Canberra Raiders. X-ray images of Ryan Papenhuyzen’s shattered patellar show why the Melbourne Storm fullback’s knee cap fracture is “one of the most brutal NRL injuries seen in years”.
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