For the first time in Club history, Adelaide will enter the National Draft with three selections inside the first round with picks No. 8, 13 and 16.

It’s only the second time the Crows have chosen with pick No. 8, fourteen years on from selecting ruckman John Meesen in 2004.

Pick No. 8 has produced a number of the AFL’s most prolific players, including Essendon captain Dyson Heppell and 300+ gamers Jude Bolton and Jimmy Bartel.

After being drafted in 2010, Heppell won a Rising Star award in 2011 and a Crichton Medal in 2014, the same year he was selected in the All Australian squad.

The skilful midfielder has captained the Bombers for the past two seasons.

Swans great Jude Bolton was selected by Sydney in 1998, where he became a two-time premiership player in 2005 and 2013.

Bolton is second to only Adam Goodes in games played for Sydney, tallying 325 games across his career.

In 2013, he was awarded the AFLPA Madden Medal for outstanding achievement on and off the field during his career.

Brownlow medalist Jimmy Bartel, who was picked up by Geelong back in 2001, was a significant part of Geelong’s dominant premiership teams in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

The imposing utility is just one of two players with 300+ games, a Brownlow and a Norm Smith.

He won the 2007 Brownlow and 2011 Norm Smith Medal, while he was a two-time All-Australian in 2007 and 2008.

Ben Reid (pick No. 8 in 2006) and Lachie Henderson (2007) are among 10 current day players still on AFL lists heading into the 2019 season.

Last 10 players selected with pick No. 8:

2008 – Ty Vickery (Richmond, 125 games. Hawthorn, six games.) 
2009 – John Butcher (Port Adelaide, 31 games)
2010 – Dyson Heppell (Essendon, 151 games)
2011 – Billy Longer (St Kilda, 65 games)
2012 – Sam Mayes (Brisbane, 101 games)
2013 – Luke McDonald (North Melbourne, 96 games)
2014 – Peter Wright (Gold Coast, 49 games)
2015 – Callum Ah Chee (Gold Coast, 44 games)
2016 – Griffin Logue (Fremantle, 13 games)
2017 – Nicholas Coffield (St Kilda, 10 games)