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:

  1. Tom Boyd (GWS)
  2. Josh Kelly (GWS)
  3. Jack Billings (St Kilda)
  4. Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
  5. Kade Kolodjashnij (Gold Coast)
  6. Matt Scharenberg (Collingwood)
  7. James Aish (Brisbane)
  8. Luke McDonald (North Melbourne)ย f/s
  9. Christian Salem (Melbourne)
  10. Nathan Freeman (Collingwood)
  11. Dom Sheed (West Coast)
  12. Ben Lennon (Ben Lennon)
  13. Patrick Cripps (Carlton)
  14. Cam McCarthy (GWS)
  15. Zak Jones (Sydney)
  16. Darcy Lang (Geelong)
  17. Michael Apeness (Fremantle)
  18. Luke Dunstan (St Kilda)
  19. Blake Acres (St Kilda)
  20. 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.

3. Zach Merrett - St Kilda (Originally: Pick 26, Essendon)

St Kilda finally add the outside class they have been missing in their midfield for close to a decade.

Assuming he could become a similar level of player to what he is at Essendon, we could expect Merrett to become the captain of St Kilda ahead of Jack Steele and provide high-quality professionalism and work ethic for young Saints like Mitch Owens and Mattaes Phillipou to look up to.

AFL Rd 13 - Essendon v Richmond
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 22: Zach Merrett of the Bombers kicks the ball during the round 13 AFL match between the Essendon Bombers and the Richmond Tigers at TIO Stadium on August 22, 2020 in Darwin, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images)

This addition wouldn't change St Kilda's fortunes in 2020 or 2023 when they reached finals, but removes an ever-present list need, allowing them to build quicker under Ross Lyon.