Carlton and Zac Williams will wait to see the extent of a calf setback which saw the injury-prone 30-year-old subbed out early of his club's impressive win over Geelong on Sunday afternoon.
Speaking post-match, Blues coach Michael Voss confirmed William had been dealt another lower body blow early in the match, with the defender turned forward due for scans to assess the damage.
The Blues claimed their third win of the year 14.10 (94) - 12.4 (76) over the Cats.
Williams got his side on the board with a long-range roost from the boundary line in the opening minutes of play before heading downstairs before the first break.
Broadcast vision caught him looking ginger walking around the rooms.
The AFL's Samuel Zito reported on Monday scans suggest the injury is not as bad as the high-grade strain which ruled the Wiradjuri man out for half a season in 2022.
Williams missed the bulk of Carlton's 2022 campaign after going down against his former club GWS in round nine of that year, featuring only in their final match against Collingwood to finish the home and away season.
An ACL injury ruled him out of the Blues' entire 2023 preliminary final-bound season before earning a new lease on his career as a handy forward line addition in 2024.
"Obviously we'll get that scanned to find out the significance of it," Voss said post-match on Sunday.
"He'll be fine...everyone's got their own little journey…they've got their own little story to tell," Voss added when asked about another injury blow dealt to Williams.
"He's disappointed…he's hardly missed a session throughout the whole year. We've managed him as we would with someone with a slight (injury) history, but he's trained really well. He's been as keen as anyone.
"He's been in some good form filling a really good role for us, something a bit different that's unique to him. But hopefully we're missing him just for a couple of weeks.
"I don't know the scale of it yet, so I guess it's a bit of a wait a see, but again, he's a pretty important player to our makeup of our forward line."
After starting the season winless across the opening four weeks, the Blues have strung together three straight wins - the latest against the Cats proving their biggest scalp after beating less impressive opponents North Melbourne and West Coast.
Voss credited his side's intensity in the contest, saying pressure had been one aspect present through the opening stages of the year without reaping the results.
He said belief is "growing" amongst the group that their best footy competes with the competition's best.
On the other side, Cats coach Chris Scott said there was "a combination of things that added up to a lot" in the loss.
"I don't like to compare ourselves too much to the rest of the competition, but my observation watching virtually every game, every week is that every team has had one of those days this year where they just couldn't execute," Scott said.
"It didn't look like us. It's as bad as I've seen us play for a long time."
Geelong were uncharacteristically quelled by skill errors through the match.
"Sometimes you have those days, and you hope they're rare, and you lose by 70 points…I thought we hung in, and we gave ourselves a chance to win. But every time we looked like drawing level we made another error," Scott said.
"Their (Carlton's) hustle in and around the ball was really good. That's their game.
"Gee we gave them a chance with the way we used the ball and the way we used the ball and the way we sort of failed to put them under pressure. They've got too many good players to let them play the way they want."
