{"id":265232,"date":"2025-11-05T22:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265232\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:46:17","slug":"afl-draft-profile-harley-barker-potential-landing-spots-draft-range-strengths-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265232\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft Profile: Harley Barker – Potential Landing Spots, Draft Range, Strengths – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South Australian Harley Barker<\/a> is a 187cm midfielder from Sturt.<\/p>\n

Barker was one half of South Australia’s lethal wing combination this year, partnering with Central District outside ball winner Matt LeRay to complement SA’s inside midfielders.<\/p>\n

Barker, as well as LeRay, was named on the wing in the U18s All-Australian team, with the duo among seven Croweaters to feature in the side following the state’s undefeated National Championships run.<\/p>\n

Barker was integral in the side’s success, offering pace, precision and almost an unmatched work rate up the flank of the field.<\/p>\n

His ball movement inside 50 was clinical, while his effort on the defensive end didn’t go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

Barker played just one SANFL U18s game for Sturt following his commitments with SA, as an ACL injury brought his draft campaign to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n

The setback will eat into the start of Barker’s AFL<\/a> career, which is littered with promise as a pure outside runner.<\/p>\n

The athletically gifted teenager remains in first-round contention despite his injury, and comes in at 21st overall in Craft of the Draft’s top 50 power rankings for November<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fremantle, North Melbourne, Essendon and Adelaide would sit among the sides that may see Barker as a need in their list builds while having selections in his draft range.<\/p>\n

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RANK<\/a>\"HarleyHarley Barker
Sturt
Midfielder
HEIGHT: 187cm\"Sturt\"<\/p>\n

Strengths
Speed
Decision-Making
Athleticism<\/p>\n

Draft Range
Pick 15-25<\/p>\n

Potential Landing Spots
Fremantle (Pick 20)
North Melbourne (Picks 25 and 26)
Essendon (Picks 21 and 27)
Adelaide (Pick 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian Harley Barker is a 187cm midfielder from Sturt. Barker was one half of South Australia’s lethal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-265232","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\/265232","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=265232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}