Breaking: Sharks confirm extent of young forward’s knee injury.

He suffered the injury on Friday evening against the Tigers.

The Cronulla Sharks have declared that teenage forward Jesse Colquhoun’s 2024 NRL season is ended.

The 22-year-old was hauled off the field during Friday night’s crushing victory over the Wests Tigers, and the club has since announced he has a complete rupture of his ACL.

The horrific knee injury will require the teenager, who has already played 11 first-grade games, to heal for nine to twelve months.

In the best-case scenario, he might be trying to return during the first month of the 2025 season, but if his recuperation doesn’t go as planned, he could miss half of next year before being fit to play in the NSW Cup with the Newtown Jets.

The youngster’s misfortune was all the more distressing because he had just recently recovered from a foot fracture sustained during a pre-season trial match against the Canterbury Bulldogs earlier this year.

The game against the Tigers was his first NRL game of the 2024 season, with the promising youngster hoping to add to the 10 games he had played since his debut in 2022.

Despite his injury – and subsequent injuries – the Sharks re-signed Colquhoun earlier this year until at least the end of the 2026 season, allowing him plenty of time to stake a claim as an NRL level player when he does return before having to consider his future.

The Sharks have otherwise confirmed the only other new injury is to outside back Mawene Hiroti, who has suffered a fractured eye socket playing for Newtown.