{"id":688570,"date":"2026-05-23T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688570\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:21:10","slug":"shaking-it-up-re-selecting-every-pick-in-the-2025-mid-season-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688570\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking it up: Re-selecting every pick in the 2025 Mid-Season Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday Night is right around the corner for the 2026 Mid-Season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> draft, with Essendon having the top pick.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the draft, I take a look back at the 2025 Mid-Season draft and do a complete re-draft based on how the players are performing right now for their teams.<\/p>\n<p>18Zac Walker (Originally Pick 12)<\/p>\n<p>In my re-draft, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/zac-walker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Walker<\/a> unfortunately falls to the last pick. Has yet to debut for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/western-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Bulldogs<\/a>, and has not put in top-tier performances in the VFL as a forward.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old has only hit the scoreboard three times in 2026 and isn&#8217;t impacting on a high level.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Tuesday Night is right around the corner for the 2026 Mid-Season AFL draft, with Essendon having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-688570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688570","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=688570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}