The 2026 off-season is shaping up to be one of the busiest in recent years, with a host of names poised to switch guernseys in the next fortnight.
With club-linked players and Tasmania's imminent introduction set to influence how clubs value draft picks, determining the worth of each player could prove more complicated than usual.
The list below will strip out the impact of bidding and focus solely on what each player is worth in terms of a draft pick(s).
We assess the trade value of all 25 players currently expected to move clubs IF there were no limitations on deals.
What is each player actually worth on the trade table?
Scott Pendlebury
It feels surreal to assign a trade value to the man who has been synonymous with the Collingwood Football Club since first gracing its halls in the days after the 2005 National Draft, but here we are.
The game's most-capped player is a two-time premiership hero, six-time All-Australian, five-time best and fairest winner, the 2013 AFLCA Champion Player of the Year and twice voted the league's best captain.
He holds every record a midfielder could hope to in the black and white, and quite a few across the league's history too.
But all good stories have their endings, and Pendlebury's will be written in Glitter Strip salmon.
He will be 39 by the time an umpire holds a ball aloft in 2027.
Luke Hodge is just about the only precedent for this move. He and Pick 44 were exchanged for Picks 43 and 75. Those third-rounders cancel each other out, meaning Pendlebury's value is likely a speculative selection in the realm of Pick 80.
Pendlebury trade value: Pick 78
