With salary caps set at $10 million and $13 million across the SuperCoach and AFL Fantasy platforms respectively, filling every position with a premium player is simply not possible.

In order to field a team that both keeps you under the cap and allows you to be competitive, selecting a smattering of rookies is essential.

Obviously, these young names won't make up the bulk of your weekly totals, but should you select the right ones early, your bottom line and your win/loss column will look healthy.

Although we don't know whether any of these names will break through the banner in round one just yet, their pre-season track work has piqued our interest.

These are each club's rated rookies that look primed for early debuts.

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Western Bulldogs

Jamarra Ugle-Hagan (FWD)

SuperCoach price - $207,300
AFL Fantasy price - $270,000

When crafting a list of this kind, it is only a foolish person or a serial contrarian that would omit the name of the current number one draft pick.

With the Dogs forward line in need of reinforcements, it may well prove sooner rather than later that Luke Beveridge throws his prized pup to the wolves.

Ugle-Hagan averaged a tidy average of 84 Supercoach and 65 Fantasy points in his 2019 season with the Oakleigh Chargers, but it is his mean of 2.7 goals across his nine appearances that have chins wagging.

Young tall forwards are often inconsistent, but if the hype is real, Ugle-Hagan's price might just be one that needs to be paid.

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