{"id":291341,"date":"2025-11-17T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:15:11","slug":"afl-draft-profile-liam-hetherton-potential-landing-spots-draft-range-strengths-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/291341\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft Profile: Liam Hetherton – Potential Landing Spots, Draft Range, Strengths – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New South Wales prospect Liam Hetherton<\/a> is a 198cm key forward from the Murray Bushrangers.<\/p>\n

Hetherton missed most of 2025 with a back injury but has a compelling range of traits as a powerful tall, which he showcased early in 2025, briefly playing through injury, and in the back end of 2024.<\/p>\n

A mobile contested marking force who follows up well and has clean skills below his knees, Hetherton has the traits to anchor a forward line at AFL<\/a> level.<\/p>\n

From the same Coates Talent League club as now AFL-listed brothers Matt and Jack Whitlock<\/a>, he has shown himself to be a momentum player, with the ability to kick goals in quick bursts, and on raw talent, is in the top echelon of forwards of this draft class.<\/p>\n

Given his long-term injury and absence, Hetherton could prove to be a bargain selection for a club needing a key forward, with the athletic spearhead having entered the year in top 10 calculations prior to being sidelined.<\/p>\n

Hetherton is an unlikely selection for the first night of the draft, but a selection that early can’t be ruled out.<\/p>\n

Clubs keen on a key forward include GWS, Geelong, Fremantle and North Melbourne, who all hold picks in Hetherton’s range.<\/p>\n

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RANK<\/a>\"LiamLiam Hetherton
Murray Bushrangers
Forward
HEIGHT: 197cm\"Murray\u25b6<\/a><\/p>\n

Strengths
Power
Marking
Forward Craft<\/p>\n

Draft Range
Pick 25-50<\/p>\n

Potential Landing Spots
GWS (Pick 35)
Geelong (Pick 40)
North Melbourne (Picks 25, 26 and 40)
Fremantle (Pick 47)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New South Wales prospect Liam Hetherton is a 198cm key forward from the Murray Bushrangers. Hetherton missed most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291341","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\/291341","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=291341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}