Perhaps one of the more underrated players because her numbers do not always jump off the page, is Queensland’s Imogen Evans. Moving to Bond University this season to play top-level QAFLW football, the Gold Coast Suns Academy captain is a player with next to no flaws in her footballing game.

When talking about her footballing game, it is in reference to all her natural traits. Evans has clean hands, a great technical kick that hits targets over multiple distances, is not afraid to go inside, or stay outside, and covers the ground with ease. She is strong overhead and at ground level, and is a high-volume tackler, making her an all-round prospect.

All that being said, the couple of areas that have her a touch below the elite prospects in the draft, is that she is still ironing out her four-quarter consistency, and she is also not the quickest player going around. Though utilising power and strength to be able to exit stoppages, she does not have that explosiveness that some inside midfielders have, but in saying that, she covers the ground better than most with a high-level endurance and footy smarts that allow her to get into ball-winning spots quicker than most without needing that breakaway speed.

What Evans offers far outweighs what she does not, and realistically with ball-in-hand she does not make many mistakes. She is neat, clean and hard-at-it, able to burrow in and shovel it out to teammates, or receive the ball and dispose of it down the field well. A natural inside midfielder, Evans can play in other roles, and though she does not win as much of the footy in those roles, she will always compete. Evans is a member of the Suns Academy and they should have no problems calling out her name at the AFLW Draft.