{"id":236311,"date":"2025-10-24T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236311\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:35:08","slug":"the-wa-draft-prospects-you-should-be-keeping-an-eye-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236311\/","title":{"rendered":"The WA draft prospects you should be keeping an eye out for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft expert Kevin Sheehan says there are several West Australian prospects to keep a close eye on ahead of next month\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p>With West Coast holding the first two picks in the draft, attention is quickly turning to who they\u2019ll be taking as they look to move up the ladder in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehan told Adam Papalia 189cm mid-forward Sam Swadling is a particularly valuable prospect.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Kevin Sheehan name who else you should be keeping an eye on<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam Swadling is another West Perth boy,\u201d Sheehan told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s another All-Australian and use that as a guide all the time, he was a dominant underage player (in Perth).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: Paul Kane\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draft expert Kevin Sheehan says there are several West Australian prospects to keep a close eye on ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-236311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}