The 2024 AFL draft has been completed, with all 18 clubs adding to their lists with players they hope will be stars of the future.

Here’s who your club selected and what it means for your team.

Adelaide

Sid Draper (pick four), Tyler Welsh (pick 59)

The Crows didn’t have heaps to work with, but snatching Draper with their first pick is a no-brainer and provides instant improvement to their midfield.

Watching Welsh develop will be exciting, and there is hope he can make it as a key forward at the level after performing well for Adelaide’s SANFL team this season.

Brisbane

Levi Aschroft (pick five), Sam Marshall (pick 25), Ty Gallop (pick 42)

Three players in, all very well known to the Lions by way of their academy.

Ashcroft is the best player in this draft, Marshall a slick and consistent midfielder and Gallop a project tall forward with time to grow.

Carlton

Jagga Smith (pick three), Harry O’Farrell (pick 40), Ben Camporeale (pick 43), Lucas Camporeale (pick 54)

The Blues were dead set on Smith and made their move in the trade period to make sure of his capture.

O’Farrell is a skinny but versatile tall who can develop behind the Blues established bigs, while the Camporeale boys will be sentimental favourites as they push for a midfield berth.

Collingwood

Joel Cochran (pick 47), Charlie West (pick 50), Will Hayes (pick 56)

The Pies were latecomers to the draft but kicked off with a pair of athletic talls in Cochran and West.

Rounding out their work was Hayes, an electric forward-mid in the Bobby Hill mould.

Essendon

Isaac Kako (pick 13), Kayle Gerreyn (pick 37), Angus Clarke (pick 39), Rhys Unwin (pick 61), Zak Johnson (pick 70)

Kako was always the headliner, but there is stacks to like in the rest of Essendon’s work.

Gerreyn is a freak athlete for a big guy, Clarke a rebounder with so much potential, Unwin another zippy small and Johnson a crafty user on any line. The Bombers have done well.

Fremantle

Murphy Reid (pick 17), Charlie Nicholls (pick 34), Jaren Carr (pick 63)

It’s a tough midfield to get into, but Reid has the class and creativity to be a point of difference in there for Freo.

Nicholls is a tall with pace to burn and Carr a risk-free father-son selection.

Geelong

Jay Polkinghorne (pick 44), Jacob Molier (pick 52), Lennox Hoffman (pick 66), Keighton Matofai-Forbes (pick 69)

The Cats, as usual, do it their own way. A mercurial forward out of the SANFL reserves, an unheralded SA ruck, a Saints NGA defender and a rarely-sighted young forward.

Just watch them all become All Australian calibre players in the years to come.

Gold Coast

Leo Lombard (pick nine), Cooper Bell (pick 49)

Lombard was an easy one, an academy pick up who is among the elite mids in the draft.

Then the Suns raided the Giants’ pantry for a key defender out of the GWS academy in Bell. A bit of academy-on-academy poaching never goes astray.

GWS

Ollie Hannaford (pick 18), Harry Oliver (pick 19), Cody Angove (pick 24), Jack Ough (pick 36), Logan Smith (pick 71)

Hannaford and Oliver are great picks, tough and attacking smalls at either end. Ough is a very promising tall midfielder and Smith one of the most developed rucks in the draft, and an academy member to boot.

Angove was the wildcard at pick 24, but the Giants clearly love his speed and ability to pierce defences by foot. They’re rarely wrong. 

Hawthorn

Noah Mraz (pick 35), Cody Anderson (pick 64)

A quiet draft for Hawthorn, who first went after a key defender in Mraz who slid this year due to a serious foot injury.

Anderson was a member of their NGA academy and will be a cult hero if and when he cracks the AFL side.

Melbourne

Harvey Langford (pick five), Xavier Lindsay (pick 11), Aidan Johnson (pick 68)

The two left-footed midfielders taken on night one in Langford and Lindsay will provide great balance to the Demons’ engine room in time.

Johnson is a seriously speculative punt out of the VFL, but a mature body in the forward line is something Melbourne needs.

North Melbourne

Finn O’Sullivan (pick two), Matt Whitlock (pick 27), Luke Urquhart (pick 57), River Stevens (pick 67)

Ignoring the price paid in that first-night trade, North will still be pleased to have added a key defensive prospect in Whitlock to the list.

O’Sullivan will be an absolute gun, Urquhart is a ball magnet who needs to sort out his kicking and Stevens is a nifty son of a gun in attack.

Port Adelaide

Joe Berry (pick 15), Jack Whitlock (pick 33), Christian Moraes (pick 38)

The Power made a trade to make sure they could get Berry in the first round, and then just let the sliders come to them.

Whitlock could be a steal at pick 33, likewise Moraes a few selections later. The former fills a list need as a developing tall forward and the latter is close to the hardest running midfielder in the draft.

Richmond

Sam Lalor (pick one), Josh Smillie (pick seven), Taj Hotton (pick 12), Jonty Faull (pick 14), Luke Trainor (pick 21), Harry Armstrong (pick 23), Tom Sims (pick 28), Jasper Alger (pick 58)

Where do you start? Lalor and Smillie are tough and damaging midfielders. Hotton and Alger are exciting small forwards with speed and creativity.

Then you’ve got Faull, Trainor, Armstrong and Sims as talls who are all unique from each other and who will fill a number of spots at either end. They ticked pretty much every box, Richmond, though perhaps not in the way many expected them to.

St Kilda

Toby Travaglia (pick eight), Alix Tauru (pick 10), James Barrat (pick 32), Hugh Boxshall (pick 45), Alex Dodson (pick 53), Patrick Said (pick 60)

The Saints spent their first three picks on defenders, but given the quality of Travaglia, Tauru and Barrat it’s hard to blame them.

Boxshall balances things out as an athletic midfielder, Said is a smaller whippet through that position and Dodson a very promising developing ruck.

Sydney

Jesse Dattoli (pick 22), Ned Bowman (pick 26), Riley Bice (pick 41), Riak Andrew (pick 55)

The Swans have gone off book a little, taking punts on some speculative bets in Bowman, Bice and Andrew.

Dattoli should be a hit though, perhaps as a little mini-me Tom Papley in years to come.

West Coast

Bo Allan (pick 16), Jobe Shanahan (pick 30), Tom Gross (pick 46), Lucca Greggo (pick 48), Hamish Davis (pick 65)

The Eagles would have been delighted to get Allan to their pick, and now need to hope he develops the skills to go with his athletic traits to become a top line mid.

Shanahan was rated by many the best tall in the draft, and all of Gross, Greggo and Davis bring a certain contested toughness and cleanness to the midfield the Eagles badly need. An important and successful draft for West Coast.

Western Bulldogs

Cooper Hynes (pick 20), Lachie Jaques (pick 29), Josh Dolan (pick 31), Sam Davidson (pick 51), Luke Kennedy (pick 62)

Hynes looms as Jake Stringer 2.0 for the Dogs with his powerful forward-mid blend, while Jaques and Dolan bring speed and attacking verve at either end of the ground.

The hard-running Davidson’s VFL form deserved a call up, while Kennedy was an important part of the exceptional Sandringham midfield unit.