\n Announcement\n <\/p>\n
\n Poised defender takes Bombers\u2019 first award nod of 2026.\n <\/p>\n
Essendon youngster Jacob Farrow\u2019s flying start to his debut campaign has been rewarded with a Telstra Rising Star nomination for Gather Round.<\/p>\n
The sheer poise of the 18-year-old defender was palpable in the Club\u2019s drought breaking 45-point rout of the Demons on Saturday \u2013 he finished with 22 disposals at 82 per cent efficiency in a composed performance from the back half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just three games into his career, the Western Australian already looks every bit of an established AFL footballer with his assured decision making and a raking left foot to boot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Farrow follows in the footsteps of another starring Don from the weekend in Archie Roberts, who also earned a nomination for his efforts in the corresponding fixture last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a huge honour to be named the Rising\u00a0Star. I\u2019ve just been focused on playing my role and doing my best, so to get this recognition is special,\u201d\u00a0Farrow said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m loving every minute\u00a0of being out there with the boys, and the support from the coaches and staff have been unreal since joining the Club last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is still a lot\u00a0I want to work on in my game, but this gives me confidence to keep building and hopefully contribute to more wins for the Bomber fans.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Farrow found out the news from Roberts at the NEC Hangar on Monday morning, the young Dons coming together as they push onto a matchup with Gold Coast interstate this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to Roberts, Farrow also joins Nate Caddy, Isaac Kako and Angus Clarke as recent nominations in red and black.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll now be in the running for the overall award at year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Poised defender takes Bombers\u2019 first award nod of 2026. Essendon youngster Jacob Farrow\u2019s flying start to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-604805","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\/604805","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=604805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}