Geelong forward Gryan Miers has moved to clarify how he injured his ACL.

On Zero Hanger's Six Points podcast, Mark Stevens revealed that Miers injured his knee in a non-football related incident.

Miers, speaking on Channel Seven, confirmed that it wasn't on the park.

"Yeah (there was a wrestling incident involved). You can word it like that. But it wasn't exactly wrestling. I tried to trip someone, and they pulled away from me and I was like, 'geez, that's not right'. And that's literally it," the Cats forward said.

"And two days later, trained, planted, and was like that's not right again.

"I feel like I can perform because performance has supported me."

Calls have suggested that Miers will invetiably head in for surgery on his partially torn ACL, which according to Dr Peter Larkins, who told Zero Hanger, "playing with an incomplete ACL tear is high risk".

"It is a decision made in combination with the player, medical staff and coaching staff ... the risk being accepted by the player," Dr Larkins said.

But the Cats, and Miers, are attempting to trailblaze in this space, and his return last week against Brisbane, collecting 16 possessions in 74 percent game time, has buoyed the club of his prospects this season.

"There's opinions that it's not good," Miers said.

"But, physically I feel good that maybe I'm a pioneer and the way it's going, in that sense, but maybe I'm an idiot. We'll just wait and see.

"Coming back from a 12-month injury doesn't mean I'm back to 100 percent. So If I can get to 90-95 percent, maybe that's better than me coming off a 12-month reconstruction."

Miers was put through a four-week intense training block, with immense consultation on the next step after he was sidelined following the Round 5 clash against West Coast.

The Cats have opted against knee surgery at this stage, which would wipe him out of 2026.

Geelong coach Chris Scott was quizzed on Miers' return against the Lions last week.

"I don't mean to be flippant about it, but he was declared (ready) really early on in the piece," Scott said following the 41-point win over Brisbane.

"If anything, watching him and his preparation, and the feedback, as is always our process, our high-performance team and medical staff, even though they think he's okay to play earlier than he did, they wanted to be a bit conservative.

"There's a discussion there. They devise a plan and we support it. Sometimes you see those guys coming back and they just look a little bit off in his training. But he hasn't looked like that at all. He played at VFL level last week in slippery conditions, and looked really solid.

"It was just a no brainer. He hasn't missed to much footy so coming back, no matter what your injury, if you've got a sore knee, it feels a bit stiff, feels a bit different, wasn't sure exactly on the performance front.

"We thought he played fantastic tonight. Clean bill of health and played well. It's a win."

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