{"id":298254,"date":"2025-11-21T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298254\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:08:11","slug":"the-10-best-overlooked-prospects-available-for-the-afl-rookie-draft-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298254\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best overlooked prospects available for the AFL Rookie Draft &#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>After 60 selections were made at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/afl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL Draft<\/a>, there were plenty of highly-touted prospects overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those draft stars could still make their way onto an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> list, with the Rookie Draft the next best mechanism to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Rookie Draft is set to take place from 3.20pm on Friday, with plenty of talent available to strengthen each club, highlighted by a pair of credentialed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> Academy talents.<\/p>\n<p>1Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves<\/p>\n<p>Has been discussed throughout 2025 as being a top 10 talent at his best, but was expected to drift a little due to injury robbing the Mornington Peninsula local of continuity in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The fact he was unselected at the National Draft, though, was unforeseeable. In between a shoulder injury, concussion and illness, he had several complete performances where his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/i-love-the-adrenaline-it-gives-match-winning-prospect-on-consistency-injury-setbacks-and-more-170874\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">match-winning and goal-kicking ability stood out, which he spoke last week to Zero Hanger about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Has X-factor, strong aerial ability and is high impact with ball in hand.<\/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; After 60 selections were made at the AFL Draft, there were plenty of highly-touted prospects overlooked.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298254","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\/298254","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=298254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}