Due to a training ground injury, the young player for the Parramatta Eels will miss the entire 2024 NRL season.

Arthur Miller-Stephen, a young player for the Parramatta Eels, sustained a serious knee injury during a training session, which will keep him out of action for the entire 2024 season.

The 2003-born full-back made his NRL debut in Round 23 of the 2023 season, scoring the game’s first try in a 26-20 home victory over the St George Illawarra Dragons.

Miller-Stephen, a native of Queensland who can also play on the wing, played for Mackay Cutters, a semi-professional team, before joining Parramatta in 2022.

It had appeared that 2024 might be another season of advancement after he played nine times and scored four tries for the Eels’ New South Wales Cup team this year, but this injury has put an end to those hopes.

The Parramatta Eels report injuries as a young gun Brad Miller-Stephen will miss the entire 2024 NRL season due to injury. By 2024, Arthur’s team hopes to build on their 10th-place ladder finish from this season. Miller-Stephen was the most seriously injured of the eight players listed in an injury update that was posted on the team website earlier today.

Clint Gutherson, the team’s co-captain, is also recovering from a knee injury sustained in their season-ending game in 2023 and “aims” to be ready for the start of the next campaign.

In other news, Daejarn Asi and Makahesi Makatoa both experienced issues after competing for Samoa and the Cook Islands, respectively, in this autumn’s Pacific Championships.

Forward Makatoa tore a pectoral muscle, and back Asi ruptured a tendon in his finger. Both of that pair had surgery on those injuries, and will return to training in the New Year, but no return date has been set for either.

Co-captain Junior Paulo, who underwent surgery at the end of the season to address what has been called “a chronic toe injury,” will rejoin them on the training field in January.

On the plus side for the Blue and Golds, three members of their pack have returned to training this week, making room on the treatment table.

Mitchell Moses, the half-back, has recovered from an eye socket fracture, and Matt Doorey and Zac Cini, who were both injured towards the end of the 2023 season, are now fully recovered.