Wayne Milera was ruled out for the rest of the 2024 AFL season after rupturing the patella tendon in his right knee, and Adelaide later said he was progressing through rehab with a view to being back for most of pre-season, possibly only missing the first couple of weeks.

Injury timeline

  • The original injury ended his 2024 season.
  • By August 2024, Adelaide said he was back to running on grass and expected to be close to full pre-season availability.
  • There isn’t a current public update in the material I found that gives a fresh return date beyond that rehab outlook.

What that means

  • If you mean the knee injury from 2024, the answer is: season-ending at the time, with a longer rehab that stretched into pre-season work.
  • If you’re asking about a newer injury, I’d need the latest club update to say how long he’ll be out, because the available info here doesn’t confirm a new setback.

Plain-English read

In short, the injury that made the biggest headline kept him out for months rather than weeks, and Adelaide’s own update suggested he was tracking toward a return around pre-season rather than mid-season.