A BUMPER Mid-Season Draft saw 18 players added to AFL lists, with Collingwood and Melbourne fulfilling all three selections, and West Coast also taking a couple as Port Adelaide passed its third selection. Aged between 19 and 27, the VFL was a massive source for clubs with 11 of the draftees coming from the competition, while the SANFL made up six of the remaining seven, including a massive three from Woodville-West Torrens.<\/p>\n
>>> AFL MID-SEASON DRAFT PREVIEW<\/a><\/p>\n 2026 AFL MID-SEASON DRAFT: EVERY PICK<\/p>\n ROUND 1:<\/p>\n 1. Essendon \u2013 Jaxon Artemis<\/a> (Tasmania Devils VFL) | General Defender ROUND 2:<\/p>\n 13. West Coast \u2013 Marcus Herbert<\/a> (Geelong VFL) | Midfielder\/Defender ROUND 3:<\/p>\n 17. Port Adelaide \u2013 Pass
2. Richmond \u2013 Kye Annand (Geelong VFL) | Key Defender
3. West Coast \u2013 Oliver Francou (North Adelaide SANFL) | Inside Midfielder
4. Carlton \u2013 Flynn Riley<\/a> (Carlton VFL) | Ruck
5. Port Adelaide \u2013 Xavier Bamert<\/a> (North Melbourne VFL) | Midfielder
6. North Melbourne \u2013 Ollie Griffin<\/a> (Sandringham Dragons) | Forward
7. St Kilda \u2013 Campbell Lake<\/a> (Southport VFL) | Small Forward
8. Collingwood \u2013 Harrison Coe (Frankson VFL) | Ruck
9. Western Bulldogs \u2013 Caleb May<\/a> (West Adelaide SANFL) | Ruck
10. Adelaide \u2013 Hugo Hall-Kahan<\/a> (Williamstown VFL) | General Defender
11. Melbourne \u2013 Lukas Cooke<\/a> (WWT Eagles SANFL) | Tall Defender
12. Hawthorn \u2013 Max Beattie<\/a> (WWT Eagles SANFL) | Small Forward\/Midfielder<\/p>\n
14. Port Adelaide \u2013 Alex Van Wyk<\/a> (North Adelaide SANFL) | Ruck
15. Collingwood \u2013 Liam Puncher<\/a> (WWT Eagles SANFL) | Tall Defender
16. Melbourne \u2013 Joel Fitzgerald<\/a> (Frankston VFL) | Midfielder<\/p>\n
18. Collingwood \u2013 Mitch Podhajski<\/a> (Coburg VFL) | General Forward
19. Melbourne \u2013 Max Mapley<\/a> (Tasmania Devils VFL) | Ruck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BUMPER Mid-Season Draft saw 18 players added to AFL lists, with Collingwood and Melbourne fulfilling all three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[339423,339424,339425,326511,43,339426,195043,339427,339428,339429,339430,339431,195050,339432,44,339433,41,39,42,40,100523],"class_list":["post-696099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alex-van-wyk","tag-caleb-may","tag-campbell-lake","tag-flynn-riley","tag-headlines","tag-hugo-hall-kahan","tag-jaxon-artemis","tag-joel-fitzgerald","tag-liam-puncher","tag-lukas-cooke","tag-marcus-herbert","tag-max-beattie","tag-max-mapley","tag-mitchell-podhajski","tag-news","tag-ollie-griffin","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-xavier-bamert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696099","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=696099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}