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.
2. Harris Andrews - Melbourne (original position - pick 61)
Andrews is without question the top steal of this draft, taken late in the fourth round by Brisbane. He has developed into one of the premier key defenders in the AFL, now a two-time All-Australian and notable leader at the Lions.
This back-to-back duo of Andrews and Miller arguably exceeds Melbourne's original back-to-back selections and fills the hole left by GWS' pickup of Jake Lever and Geelong's addition of Angus Brayshaw. This sequence significantly alters the future at the Demons but you would think this team would still be at the top-end of the AFL at the present day.
