''There's been a lot of pressure on him from a playing point of view from everyone outside the Broncos about how he's going to perform or if he's going to play," Walters said on Big Sports Breakfast.
"It's up to Matt, I guess, to get himself right and ready for Thursday night.
"Obviously Matt has had some issues off-field but that hasn't affected anything he's been doing from a football point of view here.
"He's working hard to try and fix those problems but exactly where that's at at the moment, I'm not too sure.
"There hasn't been, from a coaching point of view, any distractions around the group at all."
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Brisbane captain Darius Boyd dead-batted a question on Monday morning over whether Lodge should make a public apology to the family he attacked. The family says Lodge has shown no remorse.
"I can't comment on that. It's something that happened a couple of years ago," Boyd said.
"All can speak of is how Lodgey's been at the club the last 18 months and he's been nothing but a respectful, humble guy.
"He's working very hard, goes to uni, all that type of stuff."
Asked if it was a concern to have the controversy hanging over the team before their first match of the new season, Boyd said: "It's something you'd have to ask Matt."
"At the end of the day, we're here to play rugby league. That's our job. We can't focus on things we have no control of.
"The past is the past and it is what it is."
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