The 30-year-old tore the muscle during the Tigers first-round loss to the Blues and after this weekend will have missed four rounds of football.
Richmond football manager Ross Monaghan said the club was taking a conservative approach.
"Hopefully he'll be right next week – he could have played this week but we just wanted to give him an extra week to make sure," Monaghan said.
"It was relatively minor and he's recovered fairly quickly – we thought it would probably be three, maybe four weeks, and that'll make it about four next week.
"We were hoping he might have been okay for this week, but as the week's gone on we just thought he probably needs another weekend off.
"We'll decide during next week whether he'll play at AFL level or he'll come back through Coburg."
Monaghan said young defender Andrew Raines would also be returning through Coburg this weekend as he recovered from a knee injury also suffered in round one.
"Rainsy will have some match limitations, but he's pretty right to play most of the game, really," he said.
"He'll just get rotated like anyone else.
"He's really 100 per cent to play, but in the course of rotations, he might play 75 or 80 per cent, I guess."
