2025 AFL Rising Star

The Telstra AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League. The winner also receives the Ron Evans Medal, named for the former AFL chairman.
The 2025 winner was Murphy Reid, from the Fremantle Football Club.

Eligibility

Every round, a nomination is given to a standout young player who performed well during that particular round. To be eligible for nomination, a player must be under 21 on 1 January of that year and have played ten or fewer senior games before the start of the season; a player who is suspended may be nominated, but is not eligible to win the award.

Nominations

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24	Matt Carroll

Final voting

The winner was decided by a 10-person panel consisting of Andrew Dillon, Eddie Betts, Jude Bolton, Nathan Buckley, Kane Cornes, Abbey Holmes, Glen Jakovich, Laura Kane, Matthew Pavlich and Kevin Sheehan. Each member awarded five votes to the player they determined most deserving, four votes to the second-most deserving, and so on to one vote to the fifth-most deserving.