\n Mid-season recruit Marcus Herbert will make his Eagles debut this weekend against the Kangaroos\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
West Coast Eagles\u2019 mid-season draftee Marcus Herbert will don the blue and gold for the first time when he makes his AFL debut against North Melbourne at Optus Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Recruited from the Geelong VFL program, Herbert was selected with pick 13 in the 2026 Mid-Season Rookie Draft and joined the Eagles after claiming Geelong\u2019s 2025 VFL Best and Fairest award.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a whirlwind, only two weeks ago I was ready to go to footy training at Geelong VFL,\u201d Herbert said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo hear my name get called out (in the Mid-Season Rookie Draft) is pretty special.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo weeks in and getting my debut, a bit unexpected but super keen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old is a composed and consistent performer across half-back and through the midfield and has already shown his skillset while competing in the WAFL over the past two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Herbert picked up 23 disposals in his first match against Peel Thunder and 16 in the upset win over Claremont last Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe WAFL boys have been awesome,\u201d Herbert said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had one win and one loss, but we knocked off the top team, so it\u2019s been great fun with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herbert has a reputation for his high football IQ, clean ball handling and ability to perform under pressure, and his strength around the contest and versatility are set to make him a key asset at AFL level.<\/p>\n
The Eagles take on North Melbourne at Optus Stadium on Saturday at 2:15pm, with the game broadcast live in WA on Channel 7 and 7plus, and nationally on Fox Footy and Kayo. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mid-season recruit Marcus Herbert will make his Eagles debut this weekend against the Kangaroos By westcoasteagles.com.au West Coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-729408","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\/729408","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=729408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}