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:
4. James Podsiadly (2010)
"J-Pod" ended his first year with the Cats one goal shy of the 50 mark and secured his position as a key member of one of the greatest sides of the century.
Debuting as a 28-year-old, Podsiadly will go down as one of the best mature-age projects of the modern era. He averaged 2.6 goals and 2.7 contested marks per game and even polled 13 Brownlow votes, adding more than great service to Mark Thompson's side.
Podsiadly would go on to boot nearly 200 goals in his 104 game career and would end his second season with a premiership medal as the Cats' leading goal kicker.