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Western BulldogsThe round's youngest team of the week hides a plainer truth: several of these players aren't promising for later — they've already arrived, on numbers measured against the seniors.
Read the full story →The rising-player talk reaches for the youngest kid or the biggest name — but the best number this round belongs to a fifteen-game forward whose output wouldn't look out of place on the senior sheet.
Talor Byrne's number is one we should all be talking about — and there's even more to find, because Round 20's biggest young performances are a story in themselves.
The best game in this week's crop of newest players wasn't a forward's bag or a midfielder's ball-count — it was a half-back's number that would have held its own against the 300-gamers.
The Rising team's standout has played three games of AFL football and just produced the best key-defender round of anyone — senior team included. Around him: three career bests, a debutant, and two names playing their final week under fifty games.
Round 18's Team of the Week for players under 50 games has a St Kilda kid on top and a Fremantle cluster underneath. This is the future, judged on one weekend.