THE CROWS will consider promoting rookie Jared Petrenko to the senior list following a second season-ending injury to forward Brett Burton.
Adelaide is yet to place anyone on its official long-term injury list, which the club is required to do before a rookie-listed replacement can be elevated.
The minimum stay for a player on the list is eight weeks, which means the Crows are likely to shift knee reconstruction victims Burton and Rhett Biglands onto it in the very near future.
A rookie can be elevated to the senior list at any stage during the season, provided the club has already named a player on its long-term injury list.
Petrenko has been the most impressive of the club’s four rookies, overcoming an off-season shoulder reconstruction to regain his spot in the Woodville-West Torrens line up.
The 18-year-old, who has played both in the midfield and defence, has featured regularly in the Eagles best players and Crows coach Neil Craig said he was impressed with his efforts.
"Jared’s been very good," he said. "Of all the rookies, he’s back playing at league level.
"There are two other rookies who have just started playing league in James Moss and Brodie Martin, but Jared has been playing league on a regular basis and is now playing very good SANFL footy.
"I like what I see on the training track. I like his attitude to the game and to training and there have been some big changes to that.
"He would be strongly considered if he continues that sort of form because we do have a spot available."
The Crows' fourth rookie, super athlete Ed Curnow, has been hamstrung by injury this year, but is back playing good football for Glenelg reserves.
Other Adelaide players to start their careers on the rookie list include Nathan Bock, Ben Rutten and Michael Doughty and Craig said any player elevated in the coming weeks was likely to play AFL this year.
"We won’t just put Jared up on the list for the sake of putting him on the list," Craig said.
"If we put him on the list, it means to our supporters and to ourselves that we’re seriously considering playing him."