{"id":94596,"date":"2021-07-03T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T08:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94596"},"modified":"2021-07-03T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T09:00:12","slug":"walker-injures-neck-in-scary-head-on-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94596","title":{"rendered":"Walker injures neck in scary head-on collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/adelaide-crows\" title=\"Adelaide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adelaide<\/a> veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/taylor-walker\" title=\"Taylor Walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Walker<\/a> has suffered a neck injury after being involved in a brutal 50-50 contest against the Brisbane Lions. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred midway through the second quarter with the Crows trailing the Lions by four points when Walker charged forward towards a ball in dispute in Adelaide&#x27;s forward half.<\/p>\n<p>As Walker dived towards the ball with reckless abandon, his head collided with the hip of the on-rushing Daniel Rich, causing his neck to bend backwards in awkward fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The former captain was sprawled out on the Adelaide Oval turf after the contest as the umpired waved play on before he was attended to by the Crows&#x27; medical staff. <\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"21a005c0-b95b-4c97-b8ba-a79c48940a24\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/21a005c0-b95b-4c97-b8ba-a79c48940a24\" alt=\"Taylor Walker\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walker initially grabbed at his left shoulder area before he was slowly escorted off the ground. <\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old was eventually substituted off at half-time with what was officially deemed a &quot;neck strain&quot; by the Crows, as off-season recruit Jackson Hately replaced him for the start of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The injury sours what has been a fantastic renaissance for Walker this season, after he looked to be on the brink of retirement last season. <\/p>\n<p>Walker has slammed home a team-high 41 goals, his highest mark since 2019, and was rewarded with a one-year contract extension this week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Adelaide veteran Taylor Walker has suffered a neck injury after being involved in a brutal 50-50 contest against the Brisbane Lions. The incident occurred midway <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94596\" title=\"Walker injures neck in scary head-on collision\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94598,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94596\/revisions\/94598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}