Immanuel Feyi-Waboso injury: Exeter boss positive for England winger

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says he is positive about the extent of Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s hamstring injury.

The 23-year-old England winger was hurt in training last week and could miss the rest of the Six Nations.

The Exeter director of rugby says Feyi-Waboso, who has scored nine tries for the Chiefs this season and crossed twice for England in the Autumn internationals, will not need surgery.

“Everybody recovers from them slightly differently,” he told BBC Sport.

“We’ve never at the club set a definitive timescale on an injury and said ‘oh this is hamstring injury it must be six weeks or it must be eight, or it must be 10, or it must be 12’, so we’ll rehab him.

“Normally the first period of rehab, the first two to three weeks, start to tell you more likely what the timescale will be.

“At this stage we’re just too early in the rehab process to say whether it’ll be the end of Six Nations or pre-end of Six Nations. Beyond then it’s just too early.

“You need to get to those running stages and stretching stages where symptoms allow you to take the next stage almost and we’re nowhere near that at the moment, so we’ve got a little way to go before we start understanding exactly the length of the injury.”