List of 2024 AFL Draft nominees revealed, featuring a stack of Goulburn Valley talents

By Liam Nash

Nov 14, 2024

Who put their hand up to be nominated for the 2024 AFL Draft? Photo by Rechelle Zammit

From sure fires to smokies, the final list of nominees for next week’s AFL Draft is out.

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Several Goulburn Valley talents have bought a ticket to the lottery, hoping to realise their dream and have their name read out by one of the 18 AFL clubs over three days of footy furore.

The AFL Draft will be held over November 20-21, while the rookie and pre-season drafts will take place on Friday.

Goulburn Valley products who miss out will still have a potential route into the professional game through the mid-season draft, but there are a handful of nominees who could call themselves AFL players by next weekend.

Benalla product Joe Berry is projected to go around the pick 10-15 range with the likes of GWS, West Coast, Fremantle and Richmond interested in the sparky small forward.

Shepparton tall Jack Whitlock may also go inside the top 20, with Port Adelaide, Richmond and Sydney all shaping as future homes for the key forward.

Moama’s Jobe Shanahan - who fits a similar profile to Whitlock - could be picked up in a similar range while Matt Whitlock seems likely to fit into the 15-30 market of the draft.

Of the 1044 players who put their names forward for the 2024 AFL Draft, 30 hailed from the Goulburn Valley region.

Goulburn Valley AFL draft nominees

Joe Berry (Benalla), Tom Evans, Logan Prout (Echuca), Cohen Paul, Darby Wilson (Euroa), Tom Clurey (Katamatite) Tom Barnett, Nic Jephson, Archie Watt (Kyabram), Max Mahoney, Harry Mahoney (Mansfield), Jobe Shanahan (Moama), Coby James (Mooroopna), Cooper Holdsworth-Rose, Oliver Munro, Nic Quigg (Seymour), Harry Boyd, Ned Byrne, Boston Dowling, Jensen Dowling, Jack Whitlock, Matt Whitlock (Shepparton), Kade Anderson, Sam Bicknell, Mitch Grumley, Caiden Phillips, Oliver Warburton (Shepparton Swans), Charlie Di Stefano, Zavier Maher (Shepparton United), Angus Scoble (Tongala).