The 2026 AFL Coaches Association best emerging player is a tie!

Both St Kilda’s Max Hall and Fremantle’s Murphy Reid are named.

“It’s obviously pretty cool. I didn’t know I was going to be up here at all,” said Reid on stage.

“Extremely humbling. Three years ago, I wasn’t even on a list, so to be standing up here and to have been voted by the coaches is pretty, pretty special,” Hall said.

Max Hall wins.  AFL Photos via Getty Images