{"id":695612,"date":"2026-05-26T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:05:10","slug":"live-from-6-30pm-aest-watch-the-2026-afl-mid-season-rookie-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695612\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE from 6.30pm AEST: Watch the 2026 AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Catch the 2026 Mid-Season Rookie Draft LIVE only on AFL.com.au and the AFL Live Official App\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Riley Beveridge, Nat Edwards and Cal Twomey. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>THE TELSTRA AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft is back for another year and the only place to watch all the action is on the AFL&#8217;s platforms: AFL.com.au, the AFL Live Official App and, for the first time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AFL&#8217;s official YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every pick as it happens live from 6.30pm AEST on Tuesday, May 26 as clubs search the country to find the next diamond in the rough.<\/p>\n<p>Our exclusive coverage will be led by Nat Edwards along with Gettable co-hosts Callum Twomey and Riley Beveridge, who will provide instant analysis and insights on the newest players at your club.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Marlion Pickett, Jai Newcombe, Sam Durham and John Noble all got their chance at AFL level through the mid-season draft and a host of untapped talents are waiting to get their opportunity in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1518671\/ultimate-guide-to-the-2026-afl-mid-season-rookie-draft-broadcast-picks-how-to-watch-players-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Check out our Ultimate Guide<\/a> for the full draft order, all the late mail and more and take a look at the full list of nominations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1528197\/the-full-list-of-nominees-for-the-2026-mid-season-rookie-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catch the 2026 Mid-Season Rookie Draft LIVE only on AFL.com.au and the AFL Live Official App Riley Beveridge,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-695612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695612","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=695612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}