\n Announcement\n <\/p>\n
\n Geelong has signed exciting young midfielder, Jesse Mellor as a Category B Rookie ahead of the 2026 AFL season\n <\/p>\n
Geelong has signed exciting young midfielder, Jesse Mellor as a Category B Rookie ahead of the 2026 AFL season.<\/p>\n
Mellor has been a part of Geelong\u2019s Next Generation Academy for a number of years, while also dominating for the Geelong Falcons and gaining valuable exposure with the Cats VFL program recently.<\/p>\n
Described as an exciting midfielder who can also play forward, Mellor emerged as a standout prospect this year with plenty of power, versatility and an incredible goal sense.<\/p>\n
In his top-age Under 16 season, Mellor featured for the Falcons and represented Vic Country in the Diversity All Stars match, before making his senior debut for Geelong West in 2024.<\/p>\n
Mellor would continue to feature for the Geelong Falcons and Vic Country at Under 18 level, but a six-goal haul against the Young Guns proved to be a decisive moment for his draft potential.<\/p>\n
He would go on to become a consistent threat in front of goal, kicking eight goals from four games at the National Championships and piecing together a number of dominant performances, ultimately earning him All-Australian honours.<\/p>\n
Mellor continued to dominate for the Falcons in the Coates Talent League, kicking 24 goals from 13 games which included a brilliant five-goal haul against Tasmania.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Mellor also gained valuable VFL exposure and spent time training with Geelong\u2019s VFL squad, playing two games throughout the season which included a 17 disposal and two goal performance against Essendon in Round 20.<\/p>\n
Mellor will join Geelong as a Category B Rookie for the 2026 AFL season, with the Cats set to add three more players to their list in Friday\u2019s Rookie Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Geelong has signed exciting young midfielder, Jesse Mellor as a Category B Rookie ahead of the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-299610","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299610","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=299610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}