Draft time often leaves AFL fans searching for omens or wanting to snap unwanted trends of the past.
Each club has its good and bad draft tales that have either set them up for the long haul or hampered their list builds at critical junctures.
The 2025 AFL Draft could do the same for several teams, who will be hoping their current suite of selections uncovers some diamonds in the rough.
Looking at every AFL team's draft hand for the 2025 count, here's how each side has fared with their current selections historically.
Carlton
Picks: 9, 11, 43, 54, 67, 72
It's not pretty reading for Carlton, who carries two early selections into night one of this year's draft. Jordan Russell, who played 116 games for the Blues, is their only ever Pick 9 selection, while Troy Sporn and Troy Menzel join current flanker Ollie Hollands as Pick 11 recruits at Princes Park. Coincidentally, the two selections Carlton used in 2024 to secure father-son pair Ben and Lucas Camporeale are at their disposal once more - Picks 43 and 54.
Pick 9: Jordan Russell
Pick 11: Trent Sporn, Troy Menzel, Oliver Hollands
Pick 43: Adrian Whitehead, Marcus Davies, Ben Camporeale
Pick 54: Michael Sexton, Leigh Snooks, Nick Graham, Lucas Camporeale
Pick 67: Ben Judd, Tony Bourke, Brett Blackwell, Joe Anderson, Andrew McInnes
Pick 72: Brad Fisher, Adrian Deluca
