{"id":299225,"date":"2025-11-21T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:26:13","slug":"cats-add-three-players-to-the-rookie-list-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299225\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats Add Three Players to the Rookie List for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Latest News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Geelong has selected three players in the AFL Rookie Draft on Friday afternoon\n            <\/p>\n<p>Geelong has finalised their list for the 2026 AFL season, making three selections in the Rookie Draft on Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With their first two picks, Geelong re-drafted George Stevens and Keighton Matofai-Forbes, with the pair set to return to the Cats next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With their final selection in the draft, the Cats recruited Nick Driscoll, a speedy midfielder-forward from Eltham and the Northern Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll earned a state draft combine invite after a brilliant stretch of football through the middle of the season, resulting in him making his VFL debut with the Northern Bullants in Round 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capable of breaking lines with his elite speed, Driscoll is also able to have an impact around stoppages\u00a0 with a high IQ around the contest and a clean set of hands to extract the ball. Driscoll also possesses elite endurance and can work hard into space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Geelong also added Next Generation Academy prospect, Jesse Mellor as a Category B Rookie on Friday afternoon, rounding out their list for the 2026 AFL season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest News Geelong has selected three players in the AFL Rookie Draft on Friday afternoon Geelong has finalised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-299225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299225","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=299225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}