The Rookie Draft and Pre-Season Draft will be held consecutively on Friday afternoon from 3pm EDT, both in virtual format.
The AFL will confirm the draft order for both the Rookie Draft and Pre-Season Draft on Friday.
Seven members of Fox Footy's Top 50 Draft Power Rankings remain available, including
Ned Long (No.38),
Charlie Dean (No.39),
Jack Avery (No.43),
Casey Voss (No.44),
Josh Browne (No.47),
Noah Pegoraro (No.48) and
Mitch Cox (No.50).
Other young guns hoping to get a gig include
Josh Cripps, the younger brother of Carlton gun Patrick,
Blayne O’Loughlin, the nephew of Sydney great Michael, and
Blake Schlensog, the former Geelong-listed tall who has impressed in the WAFL since his late 2020 delisting.
But amid a league-wide list squeeze there are also plenty of well-known players needing to be redrafted, either by their existing club or by another, to continue their careers.
AFL clubs have made commitments to redraft over a dozen players as rookies, including Cam Ellis-Yolmen (Brisbane), Lochie O’Brien and Matt Cottrell (Carlton), Isaac Chugg (Collingwood), Connor Blakely and Mitch Crowden (Fremantle), Jez McLennan and Rory Thompson (Gold Coast), Jacob Wehr (GWS), Jared Polec (North Melbourne), Sam Mayes (Port Adelaide),
Noah Cumberland and Bigoa Nyuon (Richmond), and Lewis Taylor (Sydney).
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