Hawthorn forward Connor Macdonald will miss at least the next two weeks after sustaining an ankle injury in Thursday night's 20-point win over Carlton at the MCG.

The youngster is one of four Hawks potentially available for selection in the next two to three weeks, with James Worpel (ankle), James Blanck (knee) and Sam Butler (leg) all progressing well in their recoveries. 

High Performance Manager Peter Burge also provided an update on defender Jack Scrimshaw who is returning to full health following a concussion sustained in Round 1. 

Jack Scrimshaw (concussion) - 1 week 

"He's coming good and coming out of the concussion protocols. He's resuming some non-contact training later in the week. He's obviously serving a suspension as well so it's given us a chance to go back and put some conditioning and some work into him and work on some physical qualities in his training as well. So whilst naturally disappointing he's not playing, there's an opportunity for us to really build on some other things in his training." 

Connor Macdonald (ankle) - 2 - 3 weeks 

“He’s got an ankle syndesmosis injury. Everyone hates that dreaded word but it's on the minor end, so we think this will turn around quite quickly. He won't be playing this weekend but at this stage, we're hoping that he'll be in a position potentially to play after our bye in Round 5, but we'll need another week or so just to see how that progresses. But at this stage, either Round 5 or Round 6."

James Worpel (ankle) - 2 - 3 weeks 

"He’s progressing really well. We've had two running sessions now, straight-line running sessions, and it looks promising. So he's not available this week, obviously, but we are also aiming for either the Round 5 or Round 6 games after the bye. There's a 15-day break between our game against GWS this weekend and the Gather Round game, so quite a significant amount of time for us to get quite a bit of work in and progression."

James Blanck (knee) - 2 - 3 weeks 

"He’s doing full training. We’re targeting the weekend of Round 5, which is the Gather Round weekend. There is a VFL bye that weekend, I think there's a State game, but we've organised a scrimmage practice match with Essendon VFL, so a shortened game scrimmage, and we're hoping to have him playing some minutes in that game, which would be fantastic. That's still a couple of weeks away, and we've still got more training sessions to do, but he's participating in everything so it’s good for him and great for us."

Sam Butler (leg) - 2 -3 weeks 

“Yeah, we've got some more clarity now. He's had a really good last couple of weeks of conditioning and agility work. He's really stepped up his intensity. He started training with the group again on Monday with some skill work and a couple of drills and that's gone really well. So now it's about progressing his drills. We're targeting probably around Round 5 or Round 6 of the VFL as a potential return-to-play, tentatively. We’ve pencilled that one in, but you know, we just need to make sure it absolutely goes smoothly from here, and if it does, those timelines will become more realistic.”

Calsher Dear (back) - TBC 

"He’s really good and training really well. He’s starting to get a little bit of work in and we're actually due to have his next scan towards the end of next week so it's come around quite quickly. We're hoping that in two weeks time, he would be able to resume some low-level football skills and we're progressing, at the moment, with some skill work. We're certainly progressing his conditioning levels and speed and agility, but that next scan will determine if he can resume back in with the group. So that's exciting, and it's going to come around quite quickly, so we're looking forward to that, but so far so good."

Mitch Lewis (knee) - TBC 

"Mitch Lewis is training really, really well. He's hitting some great speeds at training. We've done a lot of work on his mechanics and his movement off the back of the trip overseas. So the plan for Mitch is there's a certain amount of time that we just have to take with the graft and the graft taking within the body and the knee and that healing time. So whilst he is looking amazing at the moment with his training, there is just a certain amount of time we have to take with his conditioning and progression back into skills. But his progression back into skills will happen over the next few weeks, and then there'll be a period of time of skills that we're just going to have to use and to take until we determine what that final sort of return-to-play time is, which we won't talk about that now, not looking at that right now, but it’s in the back of our planning. We do have a rough sketch of it, but we can talk to that more in the coming weeks."

Watch Hawthorn's full Round 3 injury update below. 

Hawthorn's AFL Injury List - Round 3