\n In-demand forward Mitch Lewis has turned his back on free agency to recommit to Hawthorn on a new long-term deal.\n <\/p>\n
In-demand forward Mitch Lewis has turned his back on free agency to recommit to Hawthorn on a new long-term deal.
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The four-year extension locks away Lewis at the Hawks until at least the end of 2030.
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Fresh from a five-goal haul just days ago, the 27-year-old is enjoying a career-best year in 2026, having been held goalless just twice in his 18 appearances to date.<\/p>\n
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Approaching 100 career games, the 199cm big man has been forced to overcome his fair share of adversity across his 10-year journey since being selected with the 76th pick in the 2016 National Draft.
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After being restricted to 15 games in both the 2022 and 2023 seasons, Lewis suffered a devastating ACL injury in 2024.
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Twelve months later, in September last year, Lewis announced his revival on one of footy\u2019s biggest stages, booting three goals in the first half of the Preliminary Final.
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Hawthorn National Recruiting and List Manager Mark McKenzie said:
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\u201cWhile much had been made of Mitch\u2019s future externally, we were always really focused on getting this deal done with his management given Mitch\u2019s importance to our forward mix.
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\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt Mitch is a key part of what we are trying to achieve as a club, and at 27, he is arguably at the peak of his powers as a 199cm marking tall, which was on full show this past weekend.
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\u201cWhile his injury history has been well documented, it\u2019s a credit to both Mitch and the club for getting him to this position of sustained performance as he nears 100 career games.
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\u201cIn saying that, we are very confident he can continue to elevate his game even further in the years ahead, with Mitch expressing his strong desire to play a pivotal role in our forward line as we chase our next premiership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In-demand forward Mitch Lewis has turned his back on free agency to recommit to Hawthorn on a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-817686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817686","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=817686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}