Geelong will enter this week’s draft with pick 12. Many great players have been selected with this pick and gone on to forge successful AFL careers.

In 1993 the formerly known Brisbane Bears selected current Geelong Coach, Chris Scott with pick 12. Scott played 55 games for the Bears and 160 for the Lions, while managing to help lock down two premierships.

Scott was vice captain of the Lions from 1999 till 2004, and also a winner of the Merrett-Murray Medal. He retired in 2007 totalling 215 career games and continued his career in football at the Cats, becoming a premiership coach in his first year at the club.

The 2000 draft saw Shaun Burgoyne taken at pick number 12. Currently with 283 games and four premierships to his name, the Hawthorn star has just concluded his 17th season. The 36-year-old was drafted from Port Adelaide where he received a Rising Star nomination in his second year.

Since then he has established himself as one of the league’s best with All-Australian honours, and three flags for Hawthorn and one for Port Adelaide.

Melbourne’s Nathan Jones was selected at pick 12 in 2005 after being drafted from the Dandenong Stingrays.

Jones has played 264 games for the Dee’s while booting 130 goals. He has captained the club since 2014 and is a three time Keith ‘Bluey’ Truscott Medallist. The strong midfielder has always been one to watch receiving Rising Star nominations in his first and second year playing.

Recently retired Cyril Rioli is another player among the greats to be selected in the draft at pick 12.

The small forward is a four time premiership player for Hawthorn and duel Club Best & Fairest winner. Drafted from Saint Mary’s (NT) in 2007, Rioli was a standout in his first few years which saw him receive the AFLCA Best Young Player Award.

During his time at Hawthorn the credited forward received three-time All-Australian honours as well as the 2015 Norm Smith Medal.

The most recent success from pick 12 has been Carlton’s Charlie Curnow.

Drafted in 2015 from the Geelong Falcons, Curnow has shown major potential up forward averaging nearly two goals per game in only a handful of games.  

Placing third in this year’s Club Best & Fairest, his athleticism and skillset have been compared to that of Carlton great Anthony Koutoufides.