{"id":34727,"date":"2026-09-09T05:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tommy-wyatt-exeter-full-back-returns-after-lengthy-injury-lay-off\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:52:59","slug":"tommy-wyatt-exeter-full-back-returns-after-lengthy-injury-lay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tommy-wyatt-exeter-full-back-returns-after-lengthy-injury-lay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Wyatt: Exeter full-back returns after lengthy injury lay-off"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Exeter boss Rob Baxter hopes full-back Tommy Wyatt can return to his best form after overcoming his second serious knee injury.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 26-year-old returned to action last weekend in Exeter’s pre-season friendly loss to Scarlets at Sandy Park, where he played the first half.<\/p>\n

He missed the entirety of last season after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament<\/a> in his left knee in the final game of the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n

Wyatt had missed much of 2024<\/a> having suffered a similar injury in his other knee.<\/p>\n

“Tommy did what Tommy does, he had some really good carries and looked very elusive with the ball,” Baxter told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to take him a little while probably to regain that touch, he made a few errors on the ball, a couple of little knock-ons and bits and pieces that you wouldn’t really expect.<\/p>\n

“I actually said to him after, because he’s come off after 40 minutes without an injury, I said ‘now we can start being a bit picky and we can really try to pull your game apart and get you moving forward quickly’.<\/p>\n

“So that’s the nice thing now, he’s playing, we can review his games properly and we can look at him like a player, not a rehab guy, and that’s what’s going to be great for Tommy now.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Exeter boss Rob Baxter hopes full-back Tommy Wyatt can return to his best form after overcoming his second serious knee injury. The 26-year-old returned to action last weekend in Exeter’s pre-season friendly loss to Scarlets at Sandy Park, where he played the first half. He missed the entirety of last season after rupturing the anterior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34729,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34727\/revisions\/34729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}