2001 AFL draft
The 2001 AFL draft consisted of a state draft, a body draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period. The AFL draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.
In 2001 there were 83 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft. The Fremantle Dockers originally received the first pick in the national draft after finishing on the bottom of the ladder in the 2001 AFL season but they traded it to Hawthorn for Trent Croad. The No.1 draft pick was Luke Hodge, who became the first No.1 draft pick in many seasons to play in a premiership side.
The draft was known widely as the "superdraft" due to the recruitment of modern star players such as Luke Hodge, Luke Ball, Chris Judd, Jimmy Bartel, Nick Dal Santo, Steve Johnson, Sam Mitchell, Leigh Montagna, Gary Ablett, Brian Lake, Matthew Boyd, James Kelly, Dane Swan, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Campbell Brown, and David Hale. All of the aforementioned players played in at least one Grand Final; all but Dal Santo and Montagna played in a premiership team; and Judd, Mitchell, and Hodge captained their respective teams to victories in the 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015 grand finals. Furthermore, Judd, Bartel, Ablett, Swan and Mitchell also won the Brownlow Medal, the award for the best and fairest player in a season, while Judd, Johnson, Hodge, Bartel and Lake all won a Norm Smith Medal, which is awarded to the best player on-field in the AFL Grand Final.
Trades
In alphabetical order of new clubsHonours
Brownlow Medallists:- Chris Judd: 2004 and 2010
- Jimmy Bartel: 2007
- Gary Ablett, Jr.: 2009 & 2013
- Dane Swan: 2011
- Sam Mitchell: 2012
Premierships:
- Lewis Roberts-Thomson: 2005, 2012
- Adam Schneider: 2005
- Chris Judd: 2006
- Mark Seaby: 2006
- Steven Armstrong: 2006
- Ashley Hansen: 2006
- Quinten Lynch: 2006
- Jimmy Bartel: 2007, 2009 and 2011
- Luke Hodge: 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Rick Ladson: 2008
- Campbell Brown: 2008
- James Kelly: 2007, 2009 and 2011
- Gary Ablett, Jr.: 2007, 2009
- Steve Johnson: 2007, 2009 and 2011
- Dane Swan: 2010
- Luke Ball: 2010
- James Podsiadly, 2011
- Martin Mattner: 2012
- Sam Mitchell: 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Brian Lake: 2013, 2014, 2015
- David Hale: 2013, 2014, 2015
- Matthew Boyd: 2016