AFL Player # 2: Sam Draper

[Dave]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 20, TheUnicorn

 

[eDPS]

 

[eDPS]

 

[ant555]

Have only seen a couple of edited highlights/lowlights of him in the SANFL under 18. Looks to be exactly the type of ruck you pick in the rookie draft. Has a few raw tools but needs a lot of finishing off. The plus side is he does not look like a total plodder and has played back and forward. Skills good enough and his average disposals of just under 10 is around about the mark for most young rucks at under 18 level.

 

[Seagrave_Holmes]

Inb4 DraperDon username.

 

[Autobahn]

RIP to anyone sandwiched in-between Draper, Ambrose and Begley.

 

[Highly Evolved]

I like him. Anybody who creates their own highlights package like he did, desperately wants to play, and that is exactly the sort of attitude we should be fostering at the club.

 

[Autobahn]

 

[sin411]

Big Sam is my boy, MINE.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

So, do you guys think the curtains match?

 

[Old Campaigner]

i like that he played for a club called the Wineflies

 

[Burzum]

draper
drapes
purple drapes

 

[CourtzMajora]

draper
drapes
purple drapes

 

[BrunoV]

How the bloody hell is this kid 18 and how did no one know about him?

 

[Jobe is King]

The lad sounds stoked. Like I'm stoked at how stoked he is. Stoked.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

How the bloody hell is this kid 18 and how did no one know about him?

You like what you've seen? I still know next to nothing about him.

 

[Liberator]

The lad sounds stoked. Like I'm stoked at how stoked he is. Stoked.

Im stoked that you're stoked ... That he's stoked. Im stoked for both of you.

 

[Jade]

RIP to anyone sandwiched in-between Draper, Ambrose and Begley.

Somebody is going to ******* die in the VFL in 2017....

 

[owen87]

Bloody love this kid already, how good is that to listen to!

Hope he's a success and makes the most of it!

 

[CBombers17]

Not 6"10 and weighing in at 60 kilos?!?! - tick.

 

[BrunoV]

You like what you've seen? I still know next to nothing about him.

Just his size and apparent coordination.

Not many 22 year olds that size with a build like that.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

Just his size and apparent coordination.

Not many 22 year olds that size with a build like that.

you mean 18 year old ? or do you mean not even many 22 year olds have a build like that?

 

[BrunoV]

you mean 18 year old ? or do you mean not even many 22 year olds have a build like that?

He's 18. It seems to take most guys that size 4 or 5 years to start filling out.

 

[scanlon]

Crazy that he's only 18 and just started playing this year. Heaps of potential here. Usually I don't like project players as they never tend to work out, but this kid has everything you need. He even made himself his own highlight package on YouTube

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

He's 18. It seems to take most guys that size 4 or 5 years to start filling out.

got it.

 

[blitzer]

The thing that cracks me up is this giant young man was working at Toys R Us - now that's just plain hilarious.

I love this pick. Really wanted a young ruck for the rookie draft. Seems like a bit of a natural sporting talent as well. Lets hope he has the right disposition for AFL footy and the intensity around it.