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.
12. Darcy Byrne-Jones - Carlton (Originally: Pick 52, Port Adelaide)
Byrne-Jones is one of the major risers and is the first All-Australian featured in this re-draft, being named on the back flank in 2020 after a quality home & away season.
This same year he took home Port Adelaide's best & fairest in a minor premiership season for the Power, an astonishing feat for a player not in his side's top five players.
Who knows what would happen to his career had he joined the Blues, fans can only assume he adds some quality dash off half-back while locking down dangerous opponents and taking the occasional intercept.
Though it's safe to say Carlton fans are happy with the original selection of Patrick Cripps with this pick.
