{"id":855,"date":"2025-07-17T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:47:10","slug":"aflw-draft-power-rankings-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855\/","title":{"rendered":"AFLW Draft Power Rankings: July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cmpt-copy\">height: 170cm<\/p>\n<p class=\"cmpt-copy\">D.O.B: 23-04-2007<\/p>\n<p>CLASS WITH A CAPITAL \u2018C\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Eaton captained the South Australian side to an Under 16s campaign triumph, winning her state\u2019s MVP and being one of the best performed players alongside Russo in that carnival. She has shown throughout her SANFLW career that she can play a multitude of roles, cruising out of the middle and pinpointing passes forward of centre, or nailing tricky goals with incredible skill. One of the best users in the draft crop, when Eaton can win 20-plus touches against you, you\u2019re in for a bad day.<\/p>\n<p>Strengths:<\/p>\n<p>Eaton\u2019s skill and decision making stand out in her game, and when she is up and about, few can match her ability to hit those inside-45 kicks to open the game up. Spending time up forward, through the middle and even at times, half-back, Eaton is one of those X-factor players who can just make magic happen. The Central District top-ager does not need a lot of disposals to inflict maximum damage, and at her best is right up there with the most naturally gifted in the draft class.<\/p>\n<p>Question marks?<\/p>\n<p>Midfield craft and contested work are a couple of areas that can further develop, with Eaton just simply too good at junior level, but coming up to seniors, had to develop even more ways of impacting around the stoppages. She has a high level of endurance and speed, and can further work over opponents for long periods of time, but has lapses here and there. Overall though, she\u2019s a player you want in your side.<\/p>\n<p>Last month: #11<\/p>\n<p>Has been building since returning to the tri-colours and the one-placed drop is not indicative of her own performance, with a lineball call separating the two. She finished the SANFLW season off well with her best performance since Round 1, recording 19 disposals, eight marks, three inside 50s and kicking a goal in a massive victory over Norwood. Has been deployed as a defender for South Australia with her foot skills and decision making on display.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; Feature: <a href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2025\/02\/18\/aflw-draft-qa-sophie-eaton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Eaton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"height: 170cm D.O.B: 23-04-2007 CLASS WITH A CAPITAL \u2018C\u2019 Two years ago, Eaton captained the South Australian side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-855","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\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}