Controversial football analyst Kane Cornes has ruffled a few feathers once again, predicting Port Adelaide star Travis Boak to win the 2020 Brownlow Medal.

While Boak is certainly in the race for a podium finish, it has become very hard to go past Brisbane Lions midfielder Lachie Neale to take home 'Charlie'.

Boak has been a vital asset to Port Adelaide's minor premiership push, with Cornes backing in the former captain to take out the AFL's most prestigious individual award.

โ€œThereโ€™s going to be a Brownlow Medal winner and itโ€™s not Lachie Neale,โ€ he said on SEN SA Breakfast.

โ€œBoakyโ€™s going to win this Brownlow Medal, you watch.

โ€œIโ€™ll crunch some numbers: Heโ€™s got another perfect 10 from the coaches on the weekend which is his fifth perfect 10 of the season.

โ€œHeโ€™s now only six votes behind Lachie Neale in the coaches votes and that would be the most accurate award in terms of who is having the most dominant and consistent season.

โ€œHeโ€™s a proven vote getter - 21 votes in 2014, (16 in 2015), he got 16 last year and Port Adelaide won 10 games - and tell me who else is going to take votes off Travis Boak.

โ€œOf all the players that have had a really strong season, Tom Jonas would be lucky to get a vote because they donโ€™t recognise the backmen, (Darcy) Byrne-Jones, good solid season, top 5 in the best and fairest but wonโ€™t get a vote because heโ€™s a backman.

โ€œThe only one is Ollie Wines. Heโ€™s the only player thatโ€™s going to take any votes off Travis Boak. Robbie Grayโ€™s been quiet and heโ€™s a vote getter. (Charlie) Dixon doesnโ€™t vote (as a key forward).

โ€œIโ€™m calling it. Travis Boak could be Port Adelaideโ€™s first ever Brownlow Medallist.

โ€œThat would be massive. Flying under the radar a little bit.

โ€œHe could become the oldest winner of the Brownlow Medal which would be incredible.โ€

โ€œHis last two seasons - best and fairest last year, heโ€™ll win it again this year.

โ€œHeโ€™ll be All-Australian, I think heโ€™ll probably be All-Australian captain and he could win the Brownlow Medal.

โ€œJust a remarkable season and a credit to the work heโ€™s done to keep himself ahead of the game and in the physical shape that heโ€™s in.โ€

SEN co-host Andrew Haynes agreed that Boak is "in the mix" for the Brownlow.

โ€œJust quietly behind the scenes, heโ€™s really been chalking them up,โ€ he said of Boak.

โ€œThe AFL Coaches votes would suggest heโ€™s very much in the mix. Heโ€™s almost locked in three votes on the weekend as well.

โ€œWhat about Travis Boakโ€™s career post when he was sent to the forward line. Itโ€™s unbelievable.โ€