Geelong superstar Jeremy Cameron has revealed that he played the 2026 season with a broken arm after his injury from the 2025 Grand Final did not heal correctly.
Cameron looked injured throughout this year's campaign and consistently had heavy strapping on his busted wing, but still played 19 games and kicked 41 goals.
The 33-year-old will play his 300th game if fit in the season opener against Sydney at the SCG in Round 1 next year and will likely pass the 800-goal mark within a few rounds. Currently he sits on 777.
The star key forward spoke freely on SEN's The Run Home with Andy and Gazey on Tuesday about his injured arm and what he went through for his beloved Cats this season.
"Unfortunately my bone just didn't unite back together so it was effectively broken the whole season," Cameron said.
"The plate was the only thing holding it in place, but over the course of the 20 games that plate becomes a little bit loose and gets a bit of wear and that's where it got a bit wobbly towards the back end of the year.
"Falling to ground I was trying to protect it with the other arm and looking after it that way.
"It was one of those things if I got it fixed when I first found out I would have missed the whole season and that wasn't something that I really wanted to do. I believed I could help the team go deep into September.
"I was lucky I was able to kicked 10 in Round 6, I knew it was broken then."
Cameron is currently recovering from another operation which saw the surgeon use a bone graft out of his hip to try and get the broken arm to connect and fix itself.
He will see the medical team in six weeks time to assess how his recovery is going and establish a timeframe for return.
The off-season has been tough for Cameron, but in good news his best mate Toby Greene has joined him in Geelong after leaving GWS. An identical move to the one Cameron made at the end of 2020.
The Cats have become one of the most attractive clubs for opposition players to move to in recent years with their continued success, regional-yet-close-to-Melbourne lifestyle and relaxed club culture appealing.
Cameron said if he had not moved to Geelong six years ago, he would be out of the system by now.
"I'd be retired by now I reckon if I didn't make that move," he said.
"Not because I don't love the game, just because of the stuff that comes with it sometimes. I like to lay low. That is where Geelong is unique.
"When you are in the club, yes we are getting better, we are working on all the things like other clubs do. But then away from it I think it is exceptional how they run the place and you get so much time to yourself.
"We are 15 minutes from the club, but I'm on a farm and I feel like I am in (my home town) Dartmoor."
