Welcome Welcome to Hawthorn Harrison Jones - pick 7, 2017 rookie draft

[Dixie Flatline]

Welcome to the Hawks, Harrison. Hope your career is long and prosperous.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Profiles as a midfielder-forward. Listed by the Bushrangers at 183cm, 79kg. Ranked fourth in the standing vertical jump test (79cm) and equal sixth in the running vertical jump test (88cm) at the AFL draft combine.

 

[Mr Lizard]

Indy, surely.

 

[Boot Studder]

You best me to it, Mr Liz!

 

[vanders]

Here's some info on him. Is an inside mid with great endurance. Missed half the season with a stress fracture in his back

Edit: the link doesn't work. Posting the info in the quote below. A mod can delete it if it's an issue.

Height
185.0cm
Weight
80.15kg
Current Team
Vic Country, Murray, Vic Country
Birthday
March 15, 1999

DRAFT ANALYSIS: "A strong inside midfielder who stands up in tackles but missed the second half of the TAC Cup season through injury."

Harrison Jones had his year cruelly ended early after a back stress fracture mid-season. At that stage he was hitting his strides winning plenty of the ball and impressing in close for the Murray Bushrangers. Jones is a strong inside midfielder who has a great centre of gravity which sees him stand up in tackles and handball to teammates who are free on the outside. He is a fierce tackler and endurance runner who just wears down opponents across four quarters. While his kicking could improve and he could have more of an impact on the scoreboard, Jones’ bread and butter is at the coal face, dishing off handballs with quick hands. He is projected to be more of a rookie prospect given his limited year and improvements, but he has a number of enticing qualities to present to recruiters.

STRENGTHS

Endurance
Strength
Accumulation
Tackling
Inside work
Harrison Jones’ greatest strength is his endurance which is among the best in the TAC Cup. While he was unable to test his endurance in the Yo-Yo test at the Natural Combine, it was expected he would have pushed eventual winner Andrew Brayshaw all the way. Along with his endurance he has fantastic strength, and at 185cm and 80kg, he has a readymade body for the rigours of AFL football. He wins a whopping 59 per cent of his possessions in close, and loves to lay a tackle, averaging 7.6 per game, second to only Lachlan Fogarty of all National Combine invitees.

He averaged 23.5 disposals in his eight games, of which 13.5 were handballs. This is no surprise to those who have watched him as Jones plays a largely team-orientated role, handballing it out from a stoppage to a teammate in space. His inside work is top notch and he plays his role week in, week out. His strengths all work well in tandem to provide him with the tools to be a top inside midfielder. It is expected that if selected, Jones will have no trouble against the bigger bodies in the AFL.

MPROVEMENTS

Kicking
Scoreboard impact
Jones’ two improvements all surround his feet with kicking and scoreboard impact the two improvements for me. His kicking was just 53 per cent, which given his high rate of inside ball, it was not a surprise that it was low. However it is not the efficiency as much as it is the choice to use his feet in any given circumstance. He is so strong with his hands and often caught in a contest, but it would be good to see him win a bit more outside ball and use his feet to see what he can offer a team on a wing or half-forward. As it stands he has okay without being outstanding pace and agility, so it is easy to see why he has developed into an inside midfielder. But it would be good to see him develop that outside game further and add a bit of X-factor to his game and hit the scoreboard in the process. He had limited games this year, but these would be areas I would look for Jones to improve next.

DRAFT PROJECTION: Rookie

SUMMARY

Harrison Jones is a readymade inside midfielder. He is strong, has quick hands and loves to tackle. He has all the attributes to be a solid inside presence at the elite level, given his pace and agility are okay. His endurance is elite and will help him run out games from the beginning to the end and if he can round out his overall game to include a more damaging outside presence, then he could become a more complete player. Overall, expect Jones to be a rookie selection given his limited exposure, but given the relative lack of depth in this draft and preferences for different clubs, he could be a late pick on draft night.

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

This is the injured guy we were into at the start of the year and were monitoring his rehab closely.

An inside Mid.

Very good pick up.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

I guess there's some issue between BigFooty and the people that run that website. Jones played two seasons with the Bushrangers (three games in 2016 and nine in 2017) for 260 total disposals. He profiles as another inside midfielder who needs to improve his kicking and scoreboard impact. The knock on Jones appears to be his decision-making. He's strong, has quick hands and loves to tackle. Pace and agility are acceptable and his endurance is elite.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

http://m.afl.com.au/video/2016-10-16/draft-prospect-harrison-jones

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Has anyone seen hm play?

 

[Agent Smith]

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Indy, surely.

 

[sven_inc]

Like him.

 

[ScottMaginness]

good pickup !!

 

[Bumps"N"Grins]

Like him.

Might provide you with some work in the near future, coming off back fractures one might think he would be first in line for hammy and groin issues.
Personally I have known a couple of players that have sustained back fractures with no previous history of soft tissue leg complaints, only to suffer no end of problems with hammies and groin issues afterwards.

Anyhow that being said the boy looks pretty solid going forward.

 

[Luv_our_club]

Here's some info on him. Is an inside mid with great endurance. Missed half the season with a stress fracture in his back

Edit: the link doesn't work. Posting the info in the quote below. A mod can delete it if it's an issue.

i like that one of his "Strengths" as a footballer is strength.

 

[TheFourPillars]

I reckon he will end up playing back pocket mark it down

 

[Hawks1994]

Stress fracture in the back. Ouchies

All the best to the young man, looking forward to watching his progress just like the other draftees

 

[Max Powers]

Cool looking guy!

 

[Tomohawks]

I like his attack on the footy with super clean hands. A bit to work with here, looks a real footballer.

 

[Brishawk]

You would think with the power he has in his legs to jump high, acceleration should be good. Maybe the stress fractures and the lack of pace and agility demonstrated are a function of fixable biomechanics? Professional environment should hopefully enhance his natural power and put it to good use. Nice rookie pick.

 

[Roger Rogerson]

How brilliant is his ability to get his body in line with the ball. Incredible. Jostles inside opponents.

 

[Roger Rogerson]

You would think with the power he has in his legs to jump high, acceleration should be good. Maybe the stress fractures and the lack of pace and agility demonstrated are a function of fixable biomechanics? Professional environment should hopefully enhance his natural power and put it to good use. Nice rookie pick.

Don't see any pace concerns at all from the highlights. Hits the contests at speed too. Looms a shrewd pickup.

 

[grumbleguts]

Nexzt year we are totally going after a guy named Indiana Ford, I don't care how well he plays.

 

[Luv_our_club]

I reckon he will end up playing back pocket mark it down

Your great great great great great great grand children will be able to read this comment if they pay enough money to a Ancestry Search company, so don't worry bout it.

 

[Brishawk]

Don't see any pace concerns at all from the highlights. Hits the contests at speed too. Looms a shrewd pickup.

Just watched the video. I think he will get faster with better core/hip strength. Commentary I read was that he wasn’t slow but that he wasn’t very fast. You can see he has a lot of power off a standing jump but didn’t improve much with a run up. Could be his core can’t hold his form to allow the full power to rocket him skyward like it did for several others who improved a lot in the running vertical leap (jones jumped 8cm higher compared to Hayden who jumped 21cm higher even though their standing jumps were only 3cm apart). Hoping so anyway