In just his third year, Sydney’s Errol Gulden has quickly become a star of the competition. Photo: GETTY IMAGES

If you thought Footyology went the early crow last week by “Redrafting” the class of 2019, then you will be forgiven for thinking the word “premature” has been redefined this week.

That’s right, it’s time for the 2020 AFL draft to come in for a revision, and yes, given it’s been only three years since the names of these draftees have been read out, it must be stressed that, like the 2019 cohort, this Redraft is certainly not set in stone.

Over the next 10-15 years, players will continue jockeying for positions, and the order will doubtlessly change and fluctuate dramatically over that period of time.

But the interesting thing about the 2020 draft is that, even though it took place such a short time ago, five players have already lost their top-10 status, while a host of other draftees are already plying their trade at new clubs.

Suffice to say, it wasn’t hard to select a new revised No.1 draft pick from that year.

Sydney academy selection Errol Gulden is already a bona fide star of the competition.

After showing plenty of promise in first two seasons at the top level, Gulden rocketed through the stratosphere in 2023 to establish himself as a truly elite midfielder at the tender age of 21.

This season, Gulden averaged 27 disposals, 10 contested possessions, five marks, five tackles and four clearances a game, while also kicking 22 goals.

He saved his best until last in the home-and-away season when he racked up 42 disposals (14 contested) and two goals against Melbourne in a dominant display.

His efforts in 2023 saw him win his club’s best-and-fairest, finish equal third in the Brownlow (27 votes) and earn an All-Australian blazer. Gulden is the only member of the 2020 draft to make it into a 40-man All-Australian squad, let alone be named in the final team.

The Swans must laugh themselves to sleep each night knowing they only had to match pick 32 to secure Gulden’s services.

With 67 games and 54 goals to his credit, and having already experienced a grand final, this wunderkind has the potential to become one of the club’s greatest players by the time he retires.

Coming in at No.2 in the revised 2020 order is Geelong young gun Max Holmes, who was originally taken at pick 20 and is desperately unlucky not to have a premiership medallion hanging around his neck.

Unfortunately for him, despite presenting all but fully fit in the lead-up to the 2022 grand final against Gulden’s Swans, an overly cautious coach Chris Scott opted against selecting him due to a hamstring concern.

Nevertheless, in a sign of his maturity, Holmes didn’t allow that devastating setback to slow him down in 2023, which ended up being the best of his three seasons to date.

With career highs in disposals (400), contested possessions (158), tackles (88) and clearances (67), the 21-year-old took his game to a new level this season, and the steep trajectory which he finds himself riding after only 51 matches suggests multiple accolades might be just around the corner for the impressive wingman.

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Prodigious Western Bulldogs key forward Jamarra Ugle-Hagan drops slightly to No.3 after originally being the top pick of the draft.

It took Ugle-Hagan a while to get going, as is normally the case for young talls, but in 2023 the footy world got a mouth-watering preview of what he could produce over the next decade or so.

It’s taken him three short years to become his team’s second most-important focal point in attack, and it would not surprise if he overtook Aaron Naughton in the next year or two such is his talent.

Powered by three of his four biggest bags of his 45-game career – a pair of fives against Brisbane and Richmond, as well as a four against Fremantle – he almost doubled his 2022 goal tally of 18 by booting a total of 35 this year.

His strong marking and at times freakish skill level make him one of the most exciting prospects of the 2020 draft.

Having kicked 60 goals in his career so far, Ugle-Hagan has only scratched the surface of his enormous potential. Like the Swans, the Dogs must pinch themselves that they were able to recruit him as an academy selection.

Fourth spot in the 2020 Redraft is taken by Collingwood speedster Beau McCreery who leaps up 40 spots from No.44.

McCreery wasted little time in cementing himself as a member of the Magpies’ best 22 with his blistering pace, ferocious pressure and knack for kicking goals making him invaluable.

In the last few years, he formed a strong nucleus of pressure small forwards with Jamie Elliott, Bobby Hill, Jordan De Goey and Jack Ginnivan, who is now at Hawthorn, which has become the envy of the AFL world.

McCreery was rewarded for his consistency over the past two seasons with a premiership medallion this year. With 42 goals from 60 matches, he too has a bright future ahead of himself.

Rounding out the top five is another premiership player Jake Bowey, taken at 21 by Melbourne, who was a key member of their drought-breaking flag in 2021. In fact, Bowey’s first 17 matches were all wins.

Essendon small forward Archie Perkins moves up to six from nine, Geelong’s Ollie Henry is upgraded to seven from 17, where Collingwood picked him, and another key forward prospect in Sydney’s Logan McDonald slides from four to eight.

Adelaide tall Riley Thilthorpe drops from two to nine, and McDonald’s teammate Braeden Campbell completes the top 10 after originally being taken at pick five.

But this revised top 10 is far from locked in. You only have to look at some of the players who failed to make the cut this time around to realise that.

With the likes of Ginnivan, Port Adelaide pair Ollie Lord and Lachie Jones, Fremantle quartet Nathan O’Driscoll, Josh Treacy, Brandon Walker and Heath Chapman, Geelong’s Tanner Bruhn, Carlton’s Corey Durdin, Adelaide duo Sam Berry and Luke Pedlar, North foursome Tom Powell, Will Phillips, Charlie Lazzaro and Eddie Ford, West Coast pair Luke Edwards and Tyler Brockman, as well as Richmond duo Maurice Rioli Jr and Samson Ryan, competition for spots will be red hot.

*Redrafts only consider the first time a player was drafted.