{"id":267247,"date":"2025-11-06T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267247\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:12:10","slug":"afl-draft-the-top-10-defenders-in-the-2025-pool-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267247\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft: The top 10 defenders in the 2025 pool &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a great variety of defenders who look set to enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> system at the National Draft on November 19.<\/p>\n<p>Led by a pair of Gold Coast Academy boys, the top group includes a mix of rebounders, interceptors and lockdown players.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 10 best defenders from the 2025 draft class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1Zeke Uwland (Gold Coast Academy)<\/p>\n<p>Could be placed in any of the three lines but considers himself a defender, so we&#8217;ve put him here.<\/p>\n<p>Only featured four times in 2025, all at VFL level, after injury scuppered most of his 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>That won&#8217;t concern Gold Coast, which, through his training with the club and U18s All-Australian-winning bottom-aged season, is well aware of his talent.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful left footer who can impact in all positions, he&#8217;s set up well to seamlessly integrate into an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> environment, likely to attract a bid in the top three.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; There is a great variety of defenders who look set to enter the AFL system at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-267247","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\/267247","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=267247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}