By position his ball winning is elite for a jnr, IMO.
I'm starting to cool a bit myself though as I invest more time into looking at others and I have concerns over his Aliir Aliir/ Harry O'Brien attitude to taking the game on. I don't know if that's a good enough 1 wood any more.
I like him still, but I don't know how well that fits with us given McLarty's skill set.
Elite for a junior key defender? Because I’m not sure he actually defends very well, and as I mentioned earlier if you’re drafting him at that spot it’s to play on one of the opposition’s best key forwards.
Otherwise it’s like drafting a taller Tyson Goldsack and saying “his ball winning is elite for a tall defender”, but he doesn’t defend well enough to play on the Josh Kennedy/Jesse Hogan/Charlie Dixon types, and as opposed to a Coffield lacks the agility and precision kicking of a quality half back.
I know this is a long-winded post, but as with the problem of Josh Fraser who was a big man who played like a smaller, quicker, more nimble player... generally you want your big guys to play like big guys, first and foremost.