Port Adelaide is understood to have shown interest in Collingwood defender Wil Parker.

The cricket convert is out of contract at season's end, with no meaningful movement on a new deal by the Pies.

Parker joined Collingwood ahead of the 2024 season, and has played 14 games in the black and white, including five this year.

According to AFL Media, the Power have tracked the 24-year-old for years.

Collingwood signed the local first-class cricketer and former Big Bash League leg-spinner as a Category B Rookie.

Parker was eligible for the 2020 National Draft as a promising dual-code athlete, having represented Talent League club Eastern Ranges on 18 occasions in the two years prior to his draft year.

The Croydon product instead took the cricket path and went on to make his first-class debut with Victoria during the 2019-2020 Sheffield Shield season.

Parker has four first-class Tests to his name, taking six wickets at an average of 32.00, to go with nine T20 appearances with the Hobart Hurricanes. His last notable appearance at the first-class level came against Pakistan when representing Victoria in a warm-up match for the tourists this summer.

The Western Bulldogs were interested at the time, and have had their own success with converting James O'Donnell from cricket to football.

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