Patrick Dangerfield has been voted into No.7 on the AFL Players’ Top 50 countdown.
The AFL surveyed every player in the competition to determine who they ranked as the game’s most elite. In its second season, all 18 clubs participated in the survey with 105 players receiving at least one vote.
Dangerfield is among the most explosive players in the League and possesses a combination of strength and speed that make him unstoppable when he's firing.
Very few can catch the 24-year-old when he's in possession and working at top speed and his equally impressive acceleration enables him to get to contests or the right spot faster than most. Dangerfield is also one of a rare mould of players who can win games off their own boot.
Dangerfield slipped three places from fourth in last year's AFL Players' countdown, but his numbers still add up favourably. He remains in position No.4 in the AFL’s Player Ratings hierarchy which measures the statistical impact of every AFL player.
Last season, Dangerfield kicked 17 goals from 22 games (11 matches as stand-in skipper), finished first for the Club for handballs, inside 50s and both hard-ball and loose-ball gets, second for contested marks, third for kicks and fourth for tackles. He was third in the Club's best and fairest and led the Crows in Brownlow Medal voting with 21.
He joins fellow midfielder Rory Sloane, who ranked in position No.24, as the only two Crows revealed so far in the AFL Players’ Top 50 countdown.
AFL Players’ Top 50
7. Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide)
8. Luke Hodge (Hawthorn)
9. Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
10. Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide)
11. Josh Kennedy (Sydney)
12. Jobe Watson (Essendon)
13. Trent Cotchin (Richmond)
14. Matt Priddis (West Coast)
15. Dyson Heppell (Essendon)
16. Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda)
17. Steve Johnson (Geelong)
18. Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn)
19. Tom Rockliff (Brisbane)
20.Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle)
21. Dayne Beams (Brisbane)
22. Jordan Lewis (Hawthorn)
23. Tom Hawkins (Geelong)
24. Rory Sloane (Adelaide)
25. Harry Taylor (Geelong)
26. Brent Harvey (North Melbourne)
27. Luke Parker (Sydney)
28. Chris Judd (Carlton)
29. Callan Ward (GWS)
30. Marc Murphy (Carlton)
31. Nathan Jones (Melbourne)
32. Bryce Gibbs (Carlton)
33. David Mundy (Fremantle)
34. Brendon Goddard (Essendon)
35. Jarrad McVeigh (Sydney)
36. Chad Wingard (Port Adelaide)
37. Pearce Hanley (Brisbane)
38. Cyril Rioli (Hawthorn)
39. Dustin Martin (Richmond)
40. Dan Hannebery (Sydney)
41. Shaun Burgoyne (Hawthorn)
42. Jimmy Bartel (Geelong)
43. Josh Kennedy (West Coast)
44. Ryan Griffen (GWS)
45. Matthew Pavlich (Fremantle)
46. Luke Breust (Hawthorn)
47. Travis Cloke (Collingwood)
48. Dane Swan (Collingwood)
49. Brett Deledio (Richmond)
50. Steele Sidebottom (Collingwood)
