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.
15. George Hewett - Geelong (Originally: Pick 32, Sydney)
Geelong pick up a developing big-bodied midfielder to grow under the leadership of Joel Selwood, Jimmy Bartel and James Kelly, potentially being a key piece of the 2022 flag.
Hewett couldn't quite squeeze into Sydney's stacked midfield in the era of Josh Kennedy, Luke Parker and Dan Hannebery, but immediately displayed his knack for the contest once traded to Carlton.
He averaged 28 disposals and five tackles in his first year as a Blue, thriving in a midfield of bullies where he could showcase his in-and-under clearance prowess alongside Patrick Cripps and Sam Walsh.
This re-draft sees him potentially become a key cog in a premiership side, assuming the Cats develop him the way they typically develop their young stars.
