Essendon is building under Ben Rutten and while they are by no means where they want to be yet, have many promising players within their ranks as of current.
We continue our ‘Five trade targets for every club’ series with Essendon. The idea of these stories is to identify potentially gettable targets who could fill roles, not just link every club to the likes of Marcus Bontempelli and Patrick Cripps.
FIVE TRADE TARGETS FOR: Adelaide Crows, Brisbane Lions, Carlton, Collingwood
In no particular order, here are five players which the Bombers recruitment team would do well to target and potentially poach.
3. Jack Billings
Billings has been linked with a move away from the Saints, specifically to North Melbourne off the back of sizeable space in their salary cap. However, Essendon would be wise to go in for the 25-year-old given his talent and impact he can have. The midfielder is averaging some pretty tidy numbers for a man of his position, with eight goals to his name so far in season 2021 in nine appearances.
Billings is also averaging superb numbers in disposals per game (22.4), intercept possessions (3.8) and marks (7.6). With this, the Bombers would do well to snag him from under the noses of one of their rivals, and it would be a big statement of intent for the club should they pull it off.
Midfielder
Disposals
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