The New Zealand men's sevens team have lost skipper Scott Curry to a concussion for the Las Vegas 7s this weekend.
Former skipper DJ Forbes will take over the leadership role for the American leg.
Coach Scott Waldrom hopes to have Curry available for next week's tournament in Vancouver as the series shifts north to Canada.
Curry suffered a minor concussion a couple of weeks ago during their training.
New Zealand are struggling in fourth place after four of the 10 tournaments as they are 29 points behind leaders South Africa who have won three events.
New Zealand is pooled with Argentina, Russia and Kenya in Pool C.
Meanwhile Vodafone Fiji 7s coach Gareth Baber will name his final 12 this afternoon.
Fiji will take on Japan at 12.09pm tomorrow in the first pool match. We will take on Scotland at 3.08pm tomorrow while Fiji plays its final pool match against Australia at 9.50am Sunday.
The Medal quarter finals start at 4.16pm Sunday, the semis will be held at 9.44am next Monday while the final will kick off at 1pm next Monday.
New Zealand :
DJ Forbes – Captain (Counties Manukau)
Dylan Collier (Southland)
Iopu Iopu‑Aso (Taranaki)
Trael Joass (Tasman)
Andrew Knewstubb (Tasman)
Vilimoni Koroi (Otago)
Tim Mikkelson (Waikato)
Sione Molia (Counties Manukau)
Tone Ng Shiu (Tasman)
Sherwin Stowers (Counties Manukau)
Isaac Te Tamaki (Waikato)
Beaudein Waaka (Taranaki)
