{"id":294820,"date":"2025-11-19T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294820\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:30:08","slug":"afl-draft-pick-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294820\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft | Pick 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Draft\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Melbourne has selected Latrelle Pickett with pick No.12 at the 2025 AFL National Draft.\n            <\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE has extended its love of the Pickett name by selecting Latrelle Pickett, cousin to Dees forward Kysaiah, with pick No.12 at the 2025 AFL National Draft.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a special moment for the Pickett family, who saw Kysaiah drafted to the Dees also with pick No.12, six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As a relative of Kysaiah, it would be easy to compare Latrelle to the star Demon and if you did, you\u2019d see that the two share similar X-factor traits. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Port Lincoln in South Australia, Latrelle boasts a plethora of exciting attributes that make him AFL ready.<\/p>\n<p>With natural footballing instincts and a classy finish, his ability to create scoring opportunities is among the best. He has an elite running capacity, topping the South Australian combine 2km time trial.<\/p>\n<p>While the draft bolter didn\u2019t feature in the U18 Championships, he played for Glenelg in the SANFL, featuring in 18 reserves games and kicking 32 goals across these appearances.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draft Melbourne has selected Latrelle Pickett with pick No.12 at the 2025 AFL National Draft. MELBOURNE has extended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-294820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294820","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=294820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}