Suns youngster and first overall selection Matt Rowell has ignited discussion around the league as having the potential to be one of the best first-year players we've had across the last decade.
A number of players - young and old - have given football fans sheer unmatched delight in their debut seasons. And while John Coleman's stunning 100-goal debut season will forever go unparalleled, we've decided to rank the top 10 from the last decade alone.
There's no age bias with this list - our criteria included players of any age who were playing in their debut season.
Honourable mentions go out to Tom Stewart, David Swallow, Adam Saad, Isaac Smith, Daniel Talia, Brett Goodes, Luke Shuey & Sam Menegola.
Here are the 10 best AFL rookie seasons of the last decade:
6. Jesse Hogan (2015)
Another mini-draft selection, Hogan was taken second in the 2012 recruitment crop and ended his first year of development early with Casey after suffering a season-ending knee injury in August.
Fast forward to 2015 and Hogan broke onto the scene to make his long-awaited AFL debut with the Demons. Hogan drew comparisons to Chris Grant and Wayne Carey during his first year in the league and finished the year with 44 goals, the Rising Star award and a fourth-placed finish in his club's best and fairest count.
