AFL draft tracker: The progress of every 2024 draftee, who has debuted

How is your club’s 2024 draft haul tracking? We examine the progress of more than 100 players and find out who’s close to making their debut — and who’s still a long way off.

Richmond fans have a timeline for when they could see each of last year’s first-round draftees in action, as Josh Smillie makes positive steps towards his recovery.

The No.7 pick’s highly anticipated debut has been on delay after he suffered a second hamstring setback of the season.

The first tweak hindered Smillie’s pre-season and the second postponed his momentum towards game one, but Richmond coach Adem Yze provided an encouraging update on Wednesday, clarifying Smillie’s “TBC” on the club’s injury list as “four to six weeks”.

“Ben (Serpell, high performance manager) will give that timeline, but he’s (Smillie) travelling really well, he’s running,” Yze said.

“(Serpell) will obviously talk about that more than I will. but he’s (Smillie) not that far away, it could be four to six weeks.

“I think it will be closer to four, which is good. He’s progressing nicely, we just wanted to make sure we set a really good plan for him.”

Yze said Smillie would undergo another training block to build fitness.

Taj Hotton (Pick No.12) and Smillie are the only two first-round picks the Tigers’ supporters are yet to get a glimpse of.

But Hotton is set to join training and build towards playing in coming weeks.

“We expect to see (Hotton and Josh Gibcus) out training in the next few weeks without a non-contact hat on,” Serpell said.

“About four or so weeks of that and we can expect to see them out playing again.”

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Originally published as AFL draft tracker: The progress of every 2024 draftee, who has debuted