{"id":949415,"date":"2026-11-02T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949415\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T03:00:09","slug":"afl-draft-what-will-cody-walker-bring-to-carlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949415\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft: What will Cody Walker bring to Carlton?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL Draft is fast approaching and Carlton is set to be a major player as Cody Walker is widely expected to be taken within the first couple of picks.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Dougie Cochrane, the pair are expected to be the top talent to come out of the draft, and with Walker&#8217;s father, Andrew, playing over 200 games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/carlton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a>, he is set to land with Josh Fraser&#8217;s side as Carlton will match a bid if it comes.<\/p>\n<p>With Walker training with the Blues this past year, he has been getting an AFL-level education, while still playing VFL and at the championships.<\/p>\n<p>And now with the draft coming up in the next couple of weeks, the excitement will be building.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/carlton\/news\/chris-fagan-reveals-six-word-answer-why-he-chose-carlton\/b56bcf7a62c1db1129e52273\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Fagan reveals six word answer on why he chose Carlton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what does he think he will bring to the Blues when the inevitable happens, and Carlton snaps him up?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the strengths in my game are (my) burst out of stoppage, accumulating at stoppage; my stoppage craft is what I believe is my one-wood,\u201d he said via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/afl-draft-2026-cody-walkers-reveal-over-decision-to-pick-carlton-blues-over-richmond-tigers-exclusive-interview-latest-news\/news-story\/15920d6a3b4c4dddb503fb763131971c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a powerful, contested player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where will Walker play?<\/p>\n<p>Well, according to draft experts, midfield and a little up forward is the most likely plan of attack for Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we know he won&#8217;t be an out-and-out midfielder in his first year, as he is going against seasoned veterans with a handful of pre-seasons behind them, but that won&#8217;t mean Fraser won&#8217;t put him in to test him out.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, the Blues would be able to ease Walker into the season\u00a0and not rely on him for serious minutes and game-winning ability; instead, allow him to quietly go about his game and work on his craft.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if he is taken at No. 1 overall, that will be hard, but Walker appears ready to make a statement in his first season with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s bringing all his strengths to the table to ensure he does it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL Draft is fast approaching and Carlton is set to be a major player as Cody Walker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-949415","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\/949415","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=949415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}