Adelaide recruiting boss Hamish Ogilvie says it would be a ‘big surprise’ if his Club didn’t take pick No.6 into next week’s AFL Draft.
The Crows slid two places down the draft order on Tuesday in a pick swap deal with Greater Western Sydney that also netted a future first round selection at West Lakes.
Armed with the highest-ever national draft pick at his disposal, Ogilvie said there were several names on his whiteboard seven days out from making a final selection.
“Realistically, I think there’s four or five players in the mix,” Ogilvie told AFC Media on Wednesday.
“It’s still a little bit early. I think two or three days out from the draft we might be pretty close to having it worked out, but I think there’s still four names there.
“Our supporters are smart, they all know who the four names are, there’s no rocket science there.
“It’s just probably from pick three onwards who slides and we’ve all probably got the same four or five players.”
One player in the mix is South Australian Dylan Stephens, with the Norwood running machine widely regarded as the leading local talent available in the National Draft.
“Dylan is clearly the leading South Australian, he deserves to be,” he said.
“But you can make some fantastic cases for (Will) Gould, (Kysaiah) Pickett, (Harry) Schoenberg was their MVP in the Nationals.
“Some of the tall defenders, whilst not as flashy or sexy, they’ve done a pretty good job."
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Ogilvie believes most clubs will have a similar top 25 in their draft order, with seemingly something for everyone in this year’s talent pool.
“There’s some big mids. If you look at the Dev Robertson, Dylan Stephens, (Sam) Flanders, (Caleb) Serong sort of group, those guys are pretty exposed. They’ve played well for a long time,” Ogilvie said.
“Some of the other big mids have been injured, haven’t played as much or have come on late, so there’s probably a bit of unknown with some of those guys.
“And the talls, whilst there’s some really high quality talls, guys like (Sam) De Koning, (Fischer) McAsey can play both forward and back, there’s not a lot.
“(Luke) Jackson looks the standout ruck and Nick Bryan’s been pretty well performed as well. There’s not a lot of ruckmen in the draft.”