{"id":255480,"date":"2025-11-01T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:58:45","slug":"gold-coast-suns-ben-jepson-rookie-draft-fourth-man-in-carey-grammar-school-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255480\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Coast Suns, Ben Jepson, rookie draft, fourth man in Carey Grammar school photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gold Coast Suns<\/a> have announced they will re-select midfielder Ben Jepson in next month’s AFL<\/a> rookie draft, after officially delisting him on Friday.<\/p>\n

Jepson initially joined the Suns via the supplemental selection period ahead of the 2025 season, earning his spot after impressive stints in the VFL with Southport and Coburg.<\/p>\n

However, Jepson is perhaps best known for being the fourth schoolboy in an iconic picture from Carey Grammar’s 2019 APS premiership.<\/p>\n

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\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Jepson is perhaps best known as the fourth schoolboy in a famous Carey Grammar photo.\u00a0Getty\/ Seven<\/p>\n

Jepson, 24, played in that triumphant side alongside schoolmates and current AFL stars Matt Rowell, Nick Daicos, and Noah Anderson, but is often the one cropped or forgotten in the celebrated image.<\/p>\n

In a hilarious moment at this year’s Brownlow Medal, Anderson made sure to publicly shout out Jepson as the famed picture featured in the broadcast.<\/p>\n

“I’ll give a shout-out. Ben Jepson’s the one on the left, he always gets left out,” he said to laughter from the crowd.<\/p>\n

“At least he’s there. Usually it’s cropped for three.”<\/p>\n

However, in a moment of irony, interviewer Hamish McLachlan appeared unaware of who Jepson was.<\/p>\n

“Is he gonna get a game?,” McLachlan asked upon learning he was on the Suns’ list.<\/p>\n

“He played this year,” Anderson said.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Jepson during a Gold Coast Suns training session.\u00a0Matt Roberts via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jepson made his AFL debut against the Adelaide Crows in round 19 \u2014 his only senior game this season.<\/p>\n

He had a strong 2025 season in the reserves, playing 16 VFL games and finishing second in the Suns’ VFL best and fairest award.<\/p>\n

Jepson also previously finished runner-up in Southport’s VFL best and fairest (2024) and won Coburg’s best and fairest (2023).<\/p>\n

“We have committed to selecting Ben in the upcoming rookie draft. After earning a spot on our list and making his AFL debut in 2025, we believe he will continue to be a valuable member of our squad,” the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The rookie draft is set for Friday, November 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gold Coast Suns have announced they will re-select midfielder Ben Jepson in next month’s AFL rookie draft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255480","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\/255480","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=255480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}