AFTER a huge year of football, the nation’s top footballers battled it out for athletic honours last week at the National Draft Combine. A number of top-end talents took out individual tests, while others put their name forward to recruiters because of improvement in certain areas.<\/p>\n
Gut-running Greater Western Victoria (GWV) Rebels’ athlete Jay Rantall<\/strong> took out both the 2km time trial and the yo-yo test, sharing the latter with Geelong Falcons’ co-captain Cooper Stephens<\/strong>. In the speed tests, it was Northern Knights’ Sam Philp<\/strong> who clocked a speed of 2.867 seconds in the 20-metre sprint to take it out, with West Australian Ben Johnson<\/strong> the only other player to record under 2.9 seconds. Top five hopeful, Hayden Young<\/strong> took out the agility test, bettering his pre-season effort to record a lightning quick 7.940 seconds to be the sole player under eight seconds. For the jumps, it was Miles Bergman<\/strong> and Brady Rowles<\/strong> who impressed the most. Bergman took out the standing vertical jump with a 77cm effort, four more than Rowles. But with a run-up it was Rowles taking the honours with a massive 98cm jump, eight more than Bergman who was second.<\/p>\n Vertical jump (cm)<\/strong><\/p>\n Miles Bergman 77 Agility (seconds)<\/strong><\/p>\n Hayden Young 7.940 20m sprint (seconds)<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam Philp 2.867 Running vertical jump (cm)<\/strong><\/p>\n Brady Rowles 98 Yo-Yo test (level)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jay Rantall 21.8 2km time trial results (min:sec)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jay Rantall 5:50 minutes AFTER a huge year of football, the nation’s top footballers battled it out for athletic honours last week at the National Draft Combine. A number of top-end talents took out individual tests, while others put their name forward to recruiters because of improvement in certain areas. Gut-running Greater Western Victoria (GWV) Rebels’ athlete Jay Rantall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":55026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4790,5503,2330,681,2411,8318,6541,9989,4288],"class_list":["post-59164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ben-johnson","tag-brady-rowles","tag-cooper-stephens","tag-draft-combine","tag-hayden-young","tag-jay-rantall","tag-miles-bergman","tag-national-draft-combine","tag-sam-philp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBrady Rowles 73
\nBen Johnson 70
\nDaniel Mott 70
\nCody Weightman 69
\nSam Flanders 69
\nLachlan Williams 69
\nSam Philp 69
\nNick Bryan 69<\/p>\n
\nElijah Taylor 8.005
\nThomson Dow 8.061
\nTrent Rivers 8.100
\nOisin Gallen 8.197
\nChad Warner 8.203
\nSam Flanders 8.206
\nNoah Cumberland 8.208
\nConnor Budarick 8.242
\nDylan Stephens 8.245<\/p>\n
\nBen Johnson 2.885
\nMalcolm Rosas 2.924
\nMitch Georgiades 2.925
\nNoah Cumberland 2.931
\nFinn Maginness 2.957
\nHarrison Jones 2.963
\nJeremy Sharp 2.966
\nBrady Rowles 2.968
\nDylan Stephens 2.972<\/p>\n
\nMiles Bergman 90
\nSam Flanders 88
\nCian McBride 87
\nLachlan Williams 86
\nHugo Ralphsmith 86
\nJaxon Prior 85
\nNick Bryan 85
\nOscar Lewis 83
\nKysaiah Pickett 83
\nCody Weightman 83
\nWill Day 83
\nBrady Rowles 83
\nCooper Stephens 83
\nHarrison Jones 83 <\/p>\n
\nCooper Stephens 21.8
\nConnor Budarick 21.6
\nChad Warner 21.6
\nOscar Lewis 21.5
\nSam Philp 21.5
\nLachlan Ash 21.4
\nHarrison Jones 21.4
\nFinn Maginness 21.4
\nTrey Ruscoe 21.4
\nRiley Baldi 21.3
\nSam Flanders 21.3
\nMatt Rowell 21.3
\nJeremy Sharp 21.3<\/p>\n
\nFinn Maginness 5:51
\nDylan Stephens 6:01
\nLouis Butler 6:09
\nHugo Ralphsmith 6:12
\nJeremy Sharp 6:12
\nConnor Budarick 6:15
\nJai Jackson 6:15
\nWill Martyn 6:16
\nNed Cahill 6:17
\nMatt Rowell 6:17
\nNoah Anderson 6:17
\nCooper Stephens 6:17
\nCian McBride 6:17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"