Worried Adelaide players say they won't be spooked by the injury to Brent Reilly, who remains in intensive care with skull fractures.
Reilly suffered several fractures to the left side of his skull in an AFL training accident on Monday.
The 203-game veteran was recovering well from emergency surgery but it remains uncertain if he will play again.
"He is going quite well, I know his family is really upbeat and positive about his progression," Crows backman Daniel Talia told reporters on Wednesday.
"Obviously it's still only two or three days after the incident so we don't know too much yet. Fingers crossed that Radar is okay and everything is going along well."
Adelaide players and staff were counselled after Reilly suffered the injury when accidentally kneed to the head in a match simulation drill.
But Talia said the incident wouldn't alter the approach of Crows players to their sport.
"It's just one of those injuries that happens," Talia said.
"And as a player, when you put yourself out on the field you realise things like this do happen every now and then.
"The percentage of ugly incidents like this are very minor so guys will attack the football as normal.
"You put it out of your mind when you're out there and you play the game that you love."
Medicos are restricting the amount of hospital visitors for Reilly.
"With such a serious injury they don't want too many people seeing him, they want his brain to rest and him not to think too much," Talia said.
"And we need to let his family deal with the incident."
Meanwhile, Adelaide recruit Kyle Cheney will miss the rest of training this week after feeling ill and being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat.
The ex-Hawthorn defender's condition was not serious and he was expected to return to training next week.
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