Geelong recruiting doyen Stephen Wells’ top 40 AFL Draft gems ranked in order

Geelong recruiting doyen Stephen Wells has an incredible eye for talent that has set the Cats up for premiership success. We have ranked his 40 best picks. See the full list and have your say.

We have ranked Stephen Wells’ top 40 AFL draft gems.

The list goes on and on and on.

Geelong recruiting doyen Stephen Wells is renowned for picking players out of nowhere and his list of draft gems is comprehensive.

Wells first joined Geelong 40 years ago, so we thought we would try and whittle that list down to 40 — easier said than done.

There is plenty of unique stories among the bunch, and there were a number of quality Cats who were stiff to miss.

See the full list and have your say here.

NOTE: Gary Ablett Jr, Tom Hawkins and Matthew Scarlett do not feature as father-son rules at that stage allowed the Cats to add them automatically with third-round selections.

Originally published as Geelong recruiting doyen Stephen Wells’ top 40 AFL Draft gems ranked in order