AFL: Richmond's Toby Nankervis sidelined with knee injury

A three-time premiership player at the Tigers, the former George Town and North Launceston star managed to play out the game but could miss as many as six weeks.

"(It was) the very first centre bounce, the contact in the jump of that centre bounce," Tigers physical performance manager Peter Burge said.

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"Toby came off soon after that, and his knee was quite sore, and he was hobbling.

"He played the whole game out and was a little bit sore, but our fingers were crossed obviously post-game that he would wake up feeling alright the next day.

"But, he had some scans and definitely sprained his PCL, which is going to require a couple of weeks out of the game, just for it to glue up and for him to do a little bit of strength work around that and get his stability back.

"We will have a better idea in the next week or two about his return to play."