Mock Draft 2.0: Who’s Walking Into Our Guernsey in Round One?

Draft season is here again and that means one thing – everyone’s suddenly an expert on seventeen year olds from the Sandringham Dragons. The second edition mock draft dropped this week covering picks 1 through 43, and as always it’s equal parts gospel and guesswork.

I’ve gone through it with my Collingwood goggles on, because let’s be honest, that’s the only part any of us actually care about. Carn the Pies.

The top picks are never where the fun is

Picks one through five get all the headlines but honestly, by the time it gets to us at Collingwood, the draft’s already been shaped by three clubs tanking their way to a key position player they’ll trade in five years anyway.

This year’s mock has the usual suspects up top – a bull at the contest, a half-forward with a highlight reel, and some kid everyone reckons is ‘the next’ someone. We’ve heard that before. Remember when every second draftee was