Many of the top-end talents of the 2014 class have risen to become club leaders and competition superstars.
This updated draft sees some of the best players in the AFL join different teams and create many exciting scenarios. Will your club suffer or be better off with this re-arrange?
Here is the original 2014 first round:
- Paddy McCartin (St Kilda)
- Christian Petracca (Melbourne)
- Angus Brayshaw (Melbourne)
- Jarrod Pickett (GWS)
- Jordan De Goey (Collingwood)
- Caleb Marchbank (GWS)
- Paul Ahern (GWS)
- Peter Wright (Gold Coast)
- Darcy Moore (Collingwood - f/s)
- Nakia Cockatoo (Geelong)
- Liam Duggan (West Coast)
- Corey Ellis (Richmond)
- Lachie Weller (Fremantle)
- Jake Lever (Adelaide)
- Jarrod Garlett (Gold Coast)
- Sam Durdin (North Melbourne)
- Kyle Langford (Essendon)
- Isaac Heeney (Sydney - Academy)
- Blaine Boekhorst (Carlton)
- Jayden Laverde (Essendon)
- Hugh Goddard (St Kilda)
This draft features several academy/father-son picks i.e Heeney, Moore. These players will be drafted by the same original team at a potentially higher or lower pick depending on player value.
The draft order will hence be shifted for these adjustments; if Darcy Moore is judged the top pick of the class, Collingwood will move to pick 1 and the following teams will move down a spot.
Players will also be drafted based on team needs rather than purely the best available prospect.
5. Jack Steele - GWS (original position - pick 24, Academy)
Despite being taken as a Giants Academy pick anyway, Jack Steele has shown enough with his time at the Saints to rise into the top five of this draft after some best & fairest and Brownlow contention seasons.
We can assume that a numerical change in his draft night selection would not hinder his decision to change clubs, and his choice to join St Kilda would persist, creating a mouth-watering midfield duo to be revealed at the end of this list. The acquisitions of Lever and De Goey behind him, however, may create a situation too exciting to depart. Either way, this trio of top-10 selections with Lever, De Goey and Steele far exceeds the original Jarrod Pickett, Caleb Marchbank and Paul Ahern trio.
