Throughout Draft Week at PortAdelaideFC.com.au we’ve been concentrating on the history of picks 8, 9 and 16. (The three upcoming picks Port has in the draft.)

We covered the history of pick 8 so now it’s onto 9 which Port Adelaide received from Hawthorn through the Shaun Burgoyne trade.

Since 1996 Pick 9 has produced a Premiership Player and two All-Australian efforts - our very own Chad Cornes.

Pick 9 has seen two players represent Australia internationally - Cornes and Essendon’s Mark McVeigh. All together the players picked at this point have reached a combined effort of 508 goals.

Pick 9 has an average of 62 games per player, with Chad Cornes leading the way with 216 games since he was drafted in 1997.

Be sure to check back soon the history of the other pick Port received from the Hawthorn deal, pick 16.

Here’s the history of the best No. 9 pick of the last 13 years:

1996
Mark Harwood - Port Adelaide
Games 30

1997
Chad Cornes - Port Adelaide
Games 216

1998
Mark McVeigh - Essendon
Games 188

1999
Cayden Beetham - St Kilda
Games 37

2000
Kayne Pettifer - Richmond
Games 113

2001
Luke Molan - Melbourne
Games 0

2002
Hamish McIntosh - North Melbourne
Games 79

2003
David Trotter - North Melbourne
Games 7

2004
Jordan Russell - Carlton
Games 70

2005
Mitchell Clark - Brisbane
Games 46

2006
David Armitage - St Kilda
Games 19

2007
Ben McEvoy - St Kilda
Games 12

2008
Jack Ziebbell - North Melbourne
Games 10