{"id":285718,"date":"2025-11-15T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285718\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:43:28","slug":"afl-draft-carltons-top-picks-on-the-move-as-rivals-swoop-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285718\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft: Carlton&#8217;s top picks &#8220;on the move&#8221; as rivals swoop &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLtOkBKBAI3dNniKrFt4o_PFKrOTGXCOEG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"cotd-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"cotd-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/articleTag_WatchCotD.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carlton is reportedly trading out its top two picks, with Essendon and North Melbourne set to be the recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst trading of picks has been put on hold until draft night (Wednesday), clubs are still in negotiation to enhance their strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are preparing to match a bid on father-son prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/harry-dean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Dean<\/a>, which could be one of West Coast&#8217;s first selections.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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 Melbourne is in line to get pick 11 using pick 25 and a future second-round pick as the key parts of the swap. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLcomau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AFLcomau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Callum Twomey (@CalTwomey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalTwomey\/status\/1989551336262615368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0AFL Media&#8217;s\u00a0Cal Twomey, the Bombers are set to collect Pick 9 whilst sending to Ikon Park a late first and early second-round selection, which is currently Pick 21 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal goes through on the night, it could arm the Tullamarine club with three selections inside the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Essendon holds six available list spots, and could use most of them on top-end talent via the draft, which could help regenerate the list.<\/p>\n<p>As for North Melbourne, they currently don&#8217;t hold a first-round selection after selling their 2025 top pick to Richmond 12 months ago, helping secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/matt-whitlock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Whitlock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Key parts&#8221; of the swap with Carlton will include Pick 25 and a future second-round selection for Pick 11.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton is reportedly trading out its top two picks, with Essendon and North Melbourne set to be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285718","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\/285718","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=285718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}