West Coast’s Harley Reid voted AFL Players Association’s best-first year player by peers

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West Coast’s Harley Reid voted AFL Players Association’s best-first year player by peers

He couldn’t claim the Rising Star nod, but Harley Reid has joined an illustrious group of West Coast stars to be voted by fellow players as the AFL Players Association’s Best First-Year Player.

The teen sensation joins Brownlow medallist and premiership skipper Chris Judd and his 2006 premiership teammate Daniel Kerr as Eagles to claim the prestigious award, which is voted on by his AFL peers.

Reid, 19, claimed the award ahead of St Kilda’s Darcy Wilson and Melbourne’s Caleb Windsor, with North Melbourne defender Colby McKercher and Geelong’s West *********** draftee Lawson Humphries rounding out the top five.

The No.1 draftee had an extraordinary maiden season for the Eagles, averaging 19 disposals, four tackles, three inside 50s and five clearances as well as kicking 10 goals from his first 18 games.

Reid was ineligible to win the Ron Evans Medal as the AFL Rising Star because of a two-game suspension for rough conduct on Wilson in round 12.

The Victorian product burst onto the scene with a 16-disposal, five clearance effort on debut against Port Adelaide in round one before stamping himself as a star in the Eagles’ first win of the season against Richmond — collecting 27 touches, seven clearances and a goal.

Reid backed it up in his first western derby appearance with 19 touches and three goals, while he booted two goals from 21 touches in the round 10 victory over Melbourne.

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