\n The top end of the 2026 AFL draft is starting to take shape.\n <\/p>\n
The top eight picks in the 2026 Telstra AFL Draft are locked in – at least for now – as the home-and-away season comes to a close.<\/p>\n
The end of the home-and-away season means the teams that missed finals know where they sit at the top end of the draft, but there could still be changes ahead of the trade and free agency period, with picks potentially traded and teams potentially receiving compensation picks for free agency departures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The key player movement dates for the upcoming off-season are:<\/p>\n
Fri Oct 2 – Fri Oct 9: 2026 AFL Free Agency Period
Mon Oct 5 – Wed Oct 14: 2026 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period
Thu Nov 19 – Fri Nov 20: 2026 Telstra AFL Draft
Mon Nov 23: 2026 Telstra Pre-season and Rookie Drafts<\/p>\n
After Round 24, the indicative draft order is:<\/p>\n
INDICATIVE DRAFT ORDER
1) Essendon
2) Richmond
3) West Coast
4) Port Adelaide
5) North Melbourne
6) Melbourne (via Gold Coast)
7) Greater Western Sydney
8) St Kilda
9) Carlton
10) Collingwood
11) Western Bulldogs
12) Melbourne
13) Adelaide
14) Geelong
15) Hawthorn
16) Brisbane
17) Carlton (via Sydney)
18) Fremantle<\/p>\n
19) Essendon
20) Richmond
21) West Coast
22) Port Adelaide
23) Carlton (via North Melbourne)
24) Carlton (via Gold Coast)
25) Hawthorn (via Greater Western Sydney)
26) Hawthorn (via St Kilda)
27) Port Adelaide (via Carlton)
28) Collingwood
29) Western Bulldogs
30) Greater Western Sydney (via Melbourne)
31) Adelaide
32) Geelong
33) Hawthorn
34) Brisbane
35) Sydney
36) Fremantle<\/p>\n
37) Adelaide (via Essendon)
38) Richmond
39) West Coast
40) Port Adelaide
41) North Melbourne
42) Port Adelaide (via Gold Coast)
43) Melbourne (via Greater Western Sydney)
44) St Kilda
45) Sydney (via Carlton)
46) Sydney (via Collingwood)
47) Western Bulldogs
48) Brisbane (via Melbourne)
49) Adelaide
50) Geelong
51) Brisbane (via Hawthorn)
52) Carlton (via Brisbane)
53) West Coast (via Sydney)
54) Fremantle<\/p>\n
55) Essendon
56) Richmond
57) West Coast
58) Port Adelaide
59) North Melbourne
60) Gold Coast
61) Collingwood (via Greater Western Sydney)
62) St Kilda
63) Carlton
64) Collingwood
65) West Coast (via Western Bulldogs)
66) Hawthorn (via Melbourne)
67) North Melbourne (via Adelaide)
68) Geelong
69) Sydney (via Hawthorn)
70) Brisbane
71) Collingwood (via Sydney)
72) Fremantle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top end of the 2026 AFL draft is starting to take shape. The top eight picks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-869676","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\/869676","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=869676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}