The Power put forward an eight-year offer to Butters last year<\/a>, which would have been the biggest deal in competition history had he signed, but he will enter his contract year with a huge decision ahead.<\/p>\n Zak Butters before Port Adelaide’s clash with Carlton in round 23, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Among other key free agents heading into the year are Sydney runner Justin McInerney, Hawthorn key forward Mitch Lewis, Adelaide backman Jordon Butts (who had the Western Bulldogs interest last off-season) and Bulldog defender Buku Khamis (who requested a trade to Carlton last year).<\/p>\n
Veterans Patrick Dangerfield, Toby Greene, Stephen Coniglio, Steele Sidebottom, Scott Pendlebury, Taylor Walker and Tom Liberatore are among the senior stars who also are free agents again this year.<\/p>\n
The list also includes players who have been delisted and are now coming out of contract, such as Geelong’s George Stevens and Essendon’s Liam McMahon, and players who have previously switched clubs as free agents, like Carlton’s Zac Williams.<\/p>\n
2026 FREE AGENCY LIST<\/p>\n
* Player eligible for free agency after being previously delisted
^ Player eligible for free agency after previously changing clubs as a free agent<\/p>\n
James Borlase*
Jordon Butts
Mitch Hinge*
Chayce Jones
Rory Laird
Lachie Sholl
Taylor Walker
Tyler Welsh*<\/p>\n
Zac Bailey
Darcy Gardiner
Darragh Joyce*
Ryan Lester
Lincoln McCarthy
Lachie Neale
Dayne Zorko<\/p>\n
Francis Evans*
Nick Haynes^
Mitch McGovern
Nic Newman
Sam Walsh
Zac Williams^<\/p>\n
Jack Crisp
Jeremy Howe
Tim Membrey^*
Scott Pendlebury
Steele Sidebottom<\/p>\n
Jade Gresham^
Matt Guelfi
Liam McMahon*
Jaxon Prior*
Will Setterfield*<\/p>\n
Bailey Banfield*
Oscar McDonald*
Sam Sturt
Sam Switkowski
Corey Wagner*<\/p>\n
Jed Bews
Mark Blicavs
Patrick Dangerfield
Jake Kolodjashnij\u00a0
Jack Martin*
Mark O’Connor
Rhys Stanley
George Stevens*<\/p>\n
Oscar Adams*
Caleb Graham
Nick Holman
Ben Jepson*
Ben King
Max Knobel*
Lachie Weller
Jarrod Witts<\/p>\n
Kieren Briggs
Stephen Coniglio
Toby Greene
Jayden Laverde*
Conor Stone*<\/p>\n
Jack Gunston
Jarman Impey
Mitch Lewis
Harry Morrison<\/p>\n
Tom Campbell^
Kade Chandler
Jai Culley*
Bayley Fritsch
Steven May
Tom McDonald
Jake Melksham
Christian Salem
Tom Sparrow<\/p>\n
Aidan Corr^
Luke McDonald
Toby Pink*
Bailey Scott<\/p>\n
Zak Butters
Darcy Byrne-Jones
Ollie Wines<\/p>\n
Nathan Broad
Tom Lynch
Toby Nankervis
Dion Prestia
Jack Ross
Nick Vlastuin<\/p>\n
Ryan Byrnes*
Jack Carroll*
Patrick Said*
Liam Stocker*<\/p>\n
Joel Amartey
Harry Cunningham
Joel Hamling*
Jake Lloyd
Justin McInerney
Dane Rampe<\/p>\n
Tom Cole
Jamie Cripps
Matthew Flynn^
Bailey Williams<\/p>\n
Oskar Baker*
Lachie Bramble*
Ryan Gardner*
Buku Khamis
Tom Liberatore
Rhylee West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Walsh, Zak Butters and Lachie Neale. Pictures: AFL Photos LACHIE Neale’s uncertain future at Brisbane comes as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-419735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419735","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=419735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}