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:

  1. Paddy McCartin (St Kilda)
  2. Christian Petracca (Melbourne)
  3. Angus Brayshaw (Melbourne)
  4. Jarrod Pickett (GWS)
  5. Jordan De Goey (Collingwood)
  6. Caleb Marchbank (GWS)
  7. Paul Ahern (GWS)
  8. Peter Wright (Gold Coast)
  9. Darcy Moore (Collingwood - f/s)
  10. Nakia Cockatoo (Geelong)
  11. Liam Duggan (West Coast)
  12. Corey Ellis (Richmond)
  13. Lachie Weller (Fremantle)
  14. Jake Lever (Adelaide)
  15. Jarrod Garlett (Gold Coast)
  16. Sam Durdin (North Melbourne)
  17. Kyle Langford (Essendon)
  18. Isaac Heeney (Sydney - Academy)
  19. Blaine Boekhorst (Carlton)
  20. Jayden Laverde (Essendon)
  21. 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.

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1. Christian Petracca - St Kilda (original position - pick 2)

Petracca took some time to enter the elite bracket of AFL midfielders, but his production since a breakout 2020 season is almost unmatched. Finishing third in the 2020 Brownlow and winning the 2021 Norm Smith Medal, he sits easily within the top five midfielders in the competition and is almost the consensus best player of this draft class.

Being added to the Saints' midfield would thoroughly improve their top-end talent and could see St Kilda inflict even more damage in their 2020 finals run, potentially establishing Moorabbin as a destination zone for other stars.

The future midfield-forward combination of Petracca and King is an exciting prospect for St Kilda, especially in a fresh system under future coach Ross Lyon.

Christian Petracca during the 2022 AFL Round 1 match between Melbourne and Western Bulldogs (Photo by Cameron Grimes / Zero Digital Media)

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