Sounds like that's what we should be doing. Personally, in 12-14 years of draft watching, I've seen that many young South Australians talked up as superstars 6-12-18 months out from their draft only to become flops or only average players, that unlike most, Im certainly not get too excited re Rankine or next years draft as a whole. I think there was an 8 year patch there that every 2nd draft was billed as a super draft 12 months out, only to have people back away from that statement as it gets closer to the date.
Just from a South Australian POV, I would look at Sellar, Kennedy, Toumpas Trengove, Day, Aish, Grigg, J Scharenburg... Big names from well before they were drafted, who were drafted high, only to flop. Then you have Gibbs who was going to be a once in a generation type midfielder, become a decent bit not superstar.
As much as I hate to quote Vader, there's far too much "shiny toyitis" in the recruiting world.
Now it's all well and good to get excited about draftees, but talking about guys >12months out from their drafts as potential superstars and must gets, I'm very wary. There's a lot of water to go under the bridge.