The small forward has struggled for several weeks with a groin problem, which Worsfold revealed on Wednesday was a pubic bone stress injury, and it could keep him off the park for a significant part of the early season.
The club had former skipper Chris Judd limp through the second half of 2007 with a groin injury, and he subsequently had surgery to solve the problem, but Worsfold said LeCras’ was a different problem.
“The update really is that he has got a pubic bone stress injury, which at this stage we expect will keep him out for a few weeks, but we can’t put an exact timeline on how long he’ll be out for, so we’ve just got to manage that through rest, at this stage,” Worsfold said.
“We’re confident they’ve spotted the injury early, and that a lay-off period will hopefully let it heal itself. It’s hard to say – it might be three [weeks], it might be five, it’s pretty hard to pick at this stage.”
With the 21-year-old now sidelined for a few matches, attention will turn to who replaces him.
West Coast’s three emergencies from last weekend are all fellow smalls – Scott Selwood, Jamie McNamara and Chris Masten – while new tall Josh Kennedy is also in the mix, along with a few others.
“We’ve got a really good group of players that are in good form,” Worsfold said.
“We’ve just got to look at what we want to take into the game against Adelaide, so that [bringing in another small] would be the obvious thing, but it’s necessarily the case.
“There were a lot of good performances in the WAFL, we were pleased with Ben McKinley’s form pre-season – he didn’t play on the weekend, but he’s fresh and available – so we’re really pleased with the options we’ve got.”
Worsfold said star midfielder Daniel Kerr would cope with the extra attention he would get from opposition teams now he was West Coast’s no. 1 midfielder.
"I think Daniel can look after himself, I think he is going to be right," Worsfold said.
"Umpires are out there umpiring the game, and our players will look after Daniel like they would any other teammate - which is if they have got the footy, we try and block someone for them."
Kerr agreed he did not think he warranted special protection from teammates.
"I think the boys were very good with the blocks and stuff like that at the weekend, and it is not just their role it is my role as well to block for them on occasion," Kerr said.
"I think we won the stoppages fairly easily. So as long as we are winning the stoppages we are happy."
Kerr also said he was still struggling with the hamstring injury which curtailed his pre-season campaign, opting not to kick on his right foot during the first game.
"I had to be a bit inventive there at times because I was not confident kicking on my right foot, which was obviously still a little bit sore," Kerr said.
"I was just glad to get through the game."
