The 2013 draft features perhaps the best top-end talent of any count since 2010.
The top three selections of this re-draft astonishingly hold well over 400 Brownlow votes between them, accompanied by multiple All-Australians and top-tier awards including a Brownlow Medal and premiership medallions.
Hindsight updates to this draft create a plethora of exciting changes and strange fits, and you can decide whether your club benefits or goes backwards.
But first, here is the original first round of picks:
- Tom Boyd (GWS)
- Josh Kelly (GWS)
- Jack Billings (St Kilda)
- Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
- Kade Kolodjashnij (Gold Coast)
- Matt Scharenberg (Collingwood)
- James Aish (Brisbane)
- Luke McDonald (North Melbourne)Â f/s
- Christian Salem (Melbourne)
- Nathan Freeman (Collingwood)
- Dom Sheed (West Coast)
- Ben Lennon (Ben Lennon)
- Patrick Cripps (Carlton)
- Cam McCarthy (GWS)
- Zak Jones (Sydney)
- Darcy Lang (Geelong)
- Michael Apeness (Fremantle)
- Luke Dunstan (St Kilda)
- Blake Acres (St Kilda)
- Jack Leslie (Gold Coast)
Note: All matched bids for Academy and Next Generation Academy prospects in this re-draft are based on what we know about how those players' careers have panned out, to date.
20. Jack Billings - Gold Coast (Originally: Pick 3, St Kilda)
The former Saint turned Demon moves up north joining two-time Brownlow medallist Gary Ablett jnr at the Gold Coast Suns.
While highly maligned in recent years and especially this off-season, few remember the prime years of Jack Billings at St Kilda, which saw him average close to 23 disposals and a goal per game over a three-year stretch.
From about 12 months after his draft selection however, football fans knew the opportunity the Saints had squandered at Pick 3 with eventual Bulldogs captain Marcus Bontempelli still on the table.
While Billings takes a somewhat dramatic slide down this re-do, blame goes to his perpetual injury history more than on-field performance.