Overview
- The draft runs November 19–20 from 7pm AEDT, with the first round to be completed on night one at Docklands Stadium.
- West Coast owns picks 1 and 2, and Willem Duursma is widely tipped to be taken first overall.
- Early bids are expected for club-tied prospects including Gold Coast’s Zeke Uwland and Dylan Patterson, Brisbane’s Daniel Annable and Carlton father–son Harry Dean.
- The bidding rules require draft points to match academy or father–son bids, with a 20 per cent discount for matches, increasing the likelihood of pick swaps.
- Carlton is lining up trades around picks 9 and 11 to secure enough points to match an early bid for Dean and a likely later bid for next-generation academy graduate Jack Ison.