| Pick | # ↧ | Club | Detail | Player | Age | Height | Weight | Original Club | Grade | Games | Goals | Coaches | Brownlow | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sydney | Matthew AhMat | 18yr | 175cm | 75kg | Darwin FC/Norwood | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2 | Richmond | James Thiessen | 19yr | 180cm | 80kg | Haileybury College/Glen Waverley FC | C+ | 51 (7) | 24 | 0 | 0 | Prem: 1998 | ||
| 3 | St Kilda | Anthony Harvey | 20yr | 176cm | 77kg | Frankston | D | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 4 | Brisbane | Damian Bourke | 28yr | 199cm | 98kg | St Joseph's College/St Joseph's | B+ | 22 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 5 | Melbourne | Brett Evans | 21yr | 186cm | 85kg | Springvale | C | 28 (0) | 26 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Carlton | Tony Lynn | 25yr | 178cm | 78kg | Morningside | C+ | 27 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 7 | Western Bulldogs | Alan Thorpe | 24yr | 185cm | 83kg | Preston RSL | C | 12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 8 | Adelaide | Tim Perkins | 23yr | Mayne/North Adelaide | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 9 | Geelong | John Cunningham | 19yr | 174cm | 76kg | Northern U18/Port Melbourne | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 10 | Fitzroy | Danny Dickfos | 22yr | 188cm | 94kg | Windsor-Zillmere | C+ | 65 (0) | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||
| 11 | Essendon | Dale Kickett | 25yr | 179cm | 81kg | Claremont | C+ | 143 (8) | 31 | 0 | 13 | B&F: 1997 | ||
| 12 | Collingwood | Terry Keays | 23yr | 186cm | 85kg | Frankston | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 13 | West Coast | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Hawthorn | Simon Luhrs | 22yr | 195cm | 91kg | Western Districts | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 15 | North Melbourne | Andrew Krakouer | 21yr | 178cm | 80kg | Westmeadows/Sandringham | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 16 | Sydney | Aldo Dipetta | 21yr | 175cm | 80kg | Ainslie | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 17 | Richmond | Brad Fox | 23yr | 185cm | 92kg | Perth | C | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 18 | Brisbane | Damian Ryan | 21yr | 200cm | 90kg | Coburg Tigers | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 19 | Carlton | Haami Williams | 20yr | South Barwon | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 20 | Western Bulldogs | Russell Evans | 19yr | Northern U18 | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 21 | Geelong | Cristian O'Brien | 19yr | 184cm | 90kg | Mordialloc-Braeside/Norwood | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 22 | Fitzroy | Tom Kavanagh | 23yr | 188cm | 82kg | Castlemaine | C | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 23 | Essendon | Danny Morgan | 18yr | 178cm | 84kg | Boolarra/Northern U18 | C | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 24 | Collingwood | Kane Batzloff | 19yr | Dandenong U18 | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 25 | Sydney | James Little | 20yr | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 26 | Richmond | Brad Read | 24yr | East Fremantle | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 27 | Geelong | Stephen Cochrane | 21yr | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 28 | Fitzroy | Anthony McGregor | 20yr | 185cm | 80kg | Prahran | C | 41 | 11 | 0 | 5 | |||
| 29 | Sydney | Jamie Grant | 22yr | 183cm | 83kg | Daylesford | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 30 | Fitzroy | Dallas Normington | 24yr | Werribee | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 31 | Sydney | Phillip Rowston | 21yr | 179cm | 85kg | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 32 | Sydney | Brad Hardie | 30yr | 181cm | 88kg | South Fremantle | B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |