Connor Rozee has finished runner-up in the AFL Coaches Association Best Young Player award as voted by the compeition's senior coaches.

PORT ADELAIDE forward Connor Rozee has finished runner-up in the 2020 Shadforth Financial Group AFL Coaches Association Best Young Player award.

The award is presented to the best player in their first two seasons of AFL Football as determined by the weekly votes given out by the AFL coaches each week.

Previous winners include Tim Kelly, Tom Stewart, Clayton Oliver, Scott Pendlebury, Joel Selwood and Brownlow medallists Chris Judd and Nathan Fyfe.

Rozee averages 14.4 disposals and one goal per game during his short career and finished 2019 as Port Adelaide’s leading goal kicker with 29.

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He has booted six goals in 14 games in 2020 and spent more time playing through the midfield.

The dynamic forward finished the AFLCA count with 33 votes to finish 31 votes behind the winner, Sam Walsh from Carlton.

Walsh, the No. 1 pick of the 2018 NAB AFL Draft lived up to the hype in his first season of AFL in 2019, breaking the record for the most disposals in a debut season and was rewarded with multiple accolades, becoming Carlton’s first NAB AFL Rising Star winner, while also taking out the AFL Players’ Association’s Best First-Year Player award.

This season the 20-year old received 30 votes between Rounds 12-18 to streak away and finish 31 votes ahead of Rozee. Third place went to Western Bulldogs young gun Bailey Smith on 27 votes.