{"id":285633,"date":"2025-11-15T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285633\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:49:08","slug":"carlton-and-essendon-set-to-agree-to-trade-ahead-of-afl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285633\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlton and Essendon set to agree to trade ahead of AFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old rivals Carlton and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/essendon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essendon<\/a> look set to engage in a trade on the eve of the AFL draft, according to\u00a0AFL.com.au&#8217;s\u00a0Cal Twomey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal is also set to include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/north-melbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Melbourne<\/a>, and will see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/carlton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a> send pick nine to Essendon, and pick 11 to the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Essendon are expected to send a late first and early second round pick (likely 21, 27 and 30), while the Roos would part ways with pick 25 and a future second.<\/p>\n<p>The return for Carlton will see them accumulate more points, which will allow them to match a bid for father-son prospect Harry Dean, who is expected to be selected before Carlton are on the clock.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlton&#8217;s picks No.9 and No.11 are on the move.<\/p>\n<p>Essendon is the frontrunner to land No.9 using its picks late in the first &amp; early in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>North <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/melbourne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> is in line to get pick 11 using pick 25 and a future second-round pick as the key parts of the swap. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLcomau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AFLcomau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Callum Twomey (@CalTwomey) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalTwomey\/status\/1989551336262615368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/news\/afl-fixture-how-many-prime-time-games-does-your-club-have\/1a48ac0f7ded1d57775ac53d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AFL fixture: How many prime time games does your club have?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, Carlton possess picks\u00a09, 11, 43 and 54, while Essendon own picks\u00a05, 6, 21, 27, 30.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kangaroos&#8217; earliest pick in this year&#8217;s draft is pick 25, meaning a deal here would allow them to jump up the order.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old rivals Carlton and Essendon look set to engage in a trade on the eve of the AFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285633","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\/285633","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=285633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}