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.

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1. Marcus Bontempelli - GWS (Originally: Pick 4, Western Bulldogs)

This pick gives the Giants a comical midfield, led by Marcus Bontempelli, Patrick Cripps, Stephen Coniglio, Callan Ward, Lachie Whitfield, among others.

The Giants become an undeniable superteam almost certain to win at least one flag, raising all sorts of questions about what the AFL could look like come 2023.

Marcus Bontempelli during the 2022 AFL Round 1 match between Melbourne and Western Bulldogs (Photo by Cameron Grimes / Zero Digital Media)

Does Jeremy Cameron leave a situation like this? How many All-Australian players can one team hold? Do the legacies of Bontempelli and Cripps improve or decline with these changes?

With two picks, the Giants add 310 Brownlow votes, eight All-Australians, nine club best & fairests, three MVPs, an AFLCA Award and a Brownlow Medal to a side capable of reaching a Grand Final without them.

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