The 2013 draft features perhaps the best top-end talent of any count since 2010.
The top three selections of this re-draft astonishingly hold well over 400 Brownlow votes between them, accompanied by multiple All-Australians and top-tier awards including a Brownlow Medal and premiership medallions.
Hindsight updates to this draft create a plethora of exciting changes and strange fits, and you can decide whether your club benefits or goes backwards.
But first, here is the original first round of picks:
- Tom Boyd (GWS)
- Josh Kelly (GWS)
- Jack Billings (St Kilda)
- Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
- Kade Kolodjashnij (Gold Coast)
- Matt Scharenberg (Collingwood)
- James Aish (Brisbane)
- Luke McDonald (North Melbourne)ย f/s
- Christian Salem (Melbourne)
- Nathan Freeman (Collingwood)
- Dom Sheed (West Coast)
- Ben Lennon (Ben Lennon)
- Patrick Cripps (Carlton)
- Cam McCarthy (GWS)
- Zak Jones (Sydney)
- Darcy Lang (Geelong)
- Michael Apeness (Fremantle)
- Luke Dunstan (St Kilda)
- Blake Acres (St Kilda)
- Jack Leslie (Gold Coast)
Note: All matched bids for Academy and Next Generation Academy prospects in this re-draft are based on what we know about how those players' careers have panned out, to date.
5. Josh Kelly - Gold Coast (Originally: Pick 2, GWS)
From one expansion club to the other, this updated draft sees Josh Kelly join the Gold Coast Suns in a three-pick slide.
This move doesn't create much excitement, essentially being a downgrade for Josh Kelly in a side that may not develop him as well as the Giants did.
Kelly obviously adds class and skill to a side lacking it but probably doesn't change much of Gold Coast's fortunes.
Instead of averaging at least 26 disposals every year, winning All-Australians and best & fairests in a side challenging for premierships, Kelly is stuck on a non-finalist, receiving even less plaudits than he currently does in the AFL's newest expansion club.