Getting taken at number 1 in the AFL draft comes with its pros and cons. It serves as an honour to be recognised as the best player in your draft class, but that also comes with extra pressure to perform at a high level on a consistent basis.
These players listed below were able to channel that duress and either become wildly successful players in the AFL or lay an obvious platform or things to come.
With only a month to go until the draft, the buzz surrounding the consensus first cab off the rank in Jason Horne-Francis is almost at its crescendo.
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Should the hype prove to be real, you can expect the South Australian's name to be up in lights on lists like this within the very near future.
Here's the top 10 number 1 draft picks since 2000:
4. Brendon Goddard
Goddard was drafted by St Kilda in the 2002 draft and became a classy midfielder who provide assistance down back as a defender.
The Gippsland Power product played an impressive 334 games with both St Kilda and Essendon, averaging 22.8 disposals across his career.
Goddard won a best-and-fairest in his first year with the Bombers in 2013 and was awarded All-Australian blazers in 2009 and 2010.
Despite taking one of the game's most iconic recent marks, the fiery customer was unlucky not to be a premiership player in those two-years.
