{"id":299312,"date":"2025-11-21T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299312\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:20:12","slug":"rookie-draft-pick-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299312\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Draft | Pick 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Draft\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Big-bodied athletic midfielder Riley Onley will wear red and blue.\n            <\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE has selected powerful midfielder Riley Onley with selection No. 3 in the 2025 Telstra AFL Rookie Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 195cm Shepparton product has been playing senior football since 16 and was touted in early phantom drafts at the pointy end of proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Onley has rare athletic traits, possessing speed and athleticism rarely seen at his size.<\/p>\n<p>With a long resume of high-level football experience, Onley has plied his trade with the Murray Bushrangers, Scotch College, Vic Country and spent time with Collingwood VFL.<\/p>\n<p>Onley sustained a hamstring injury in the final game of the national championships which caused him to miss combine testing and put his physical gifts on full display.<\/p>\n<p>The selection rounds out Melbourne\u2019s 2025 draft class after Xavier Taylor (selection No. 11), Latrelle Pickett (selection No. 12), Thomas Matthews (selection No. 30) and pre-selected father-son rookie Kalani White all joined the red and blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draft Big-bodied athletic midfielder Riley Onley will wear red and blue. MELBOURNE has selected powerful midfielder Riley Onley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-299312","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\/299312","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=299312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}