10 rounds in and the 2024 AFL season remains as wide open as ever.

While the contenders have mostly separated themselves from the bottom-dwellers, the ladder is batting deeper than ever and stars from every team are making a compelling case for their own accolades and All-Australian credentials.

Individual performers like Harry Sheezel, Nick Vlastuin and Dylan Moore have earned praise for their efforts lifting a struggling side, while crops of players like Sydndey quartet Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey, Errol Gulden and Chad Warner are all shining as a superstar unit for a top-end contender.

A host of names find themselves very stiff to miss out but in a competition growing evermore stacked with talent, it's only the absolute cream of the crop who can scrape into the best 22.

3. Forwards

With four players currently tied for the Coleman Medal on 29 goals, the All-Australian front-line is a difficult crop to decipher.

We've included three of the names, with Charlie Curnow stretching out his two-year period of key-forward dominance in a race for a third straight Coleman.

Jesse Hogan and Jake Waterman are the other two who sit tied at the top, each enjoying a return to form of the highest order in two shock 2024 campaigns.

Izak Rankine solidified his spot on the forward pocket with another damaging display of front-half footy over the weekend, albeit playing predominantly midfield.

A suspected three-week hamstring injury to the mercurial forward, however, may open the door for another small to stake their claim over the coming weeks.

Silky high-forward Gryan Miers rounds out the frontier on the bench, maintaining his performance despite Geelong's recent struggles.

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