| Pick | # ↧ | Club | Detail | Player | Age | Height | Weight | Original Club | Grade | Games | Goals | Coaches | Brownlow | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sydney | Dermott Brereton | 29yr | 186cm | 89kg | Frankston Rovers | B | 22 (7) | 37 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 2 | Brisbane | Andrew Bews | 29yr | 175cm | 79kg | North Geelong | B | 75 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 3 | Richmond | Jamie Elliott | 20yr | 185cm | 85kg | Maryborough FC | C | 18 (9) | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 4 | St Kilda | David Strooper | 25yr | 191cm | 81kg | South Colac | B | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 5 | Fitzroy | Steven Stretch | 30yr | 184cm | 81kg | West Torrens | C+ | 25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Sydney | Peter Filandia | 23yr | 168cm | 75kg | Doutta Stars | C+ | 70 | 38 | 0 | 9 | |||
| 7 | Richmond | Haydn Robins | 21yr | 184cm | 80kg | Ringwood | C | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 8 | Brisbane | Craig Lambert | 25yr | 178cm | 84kg | North Dandenong | A | 96 | 27 | 0 | 22 | AA: 1996; B&F: 1994 | ||
| 9 | St Kilda | Rod Keogh | 22yr | 180cm | 83kg | Castlemaine | C | 60 | 21 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 10 | Fitzroy | Matthew Mansfield | 24yr | 188cm | 79kg | Glenorchy | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 11 | Melbourne | Dean Irving | 27yr | 200cm | 102kg | South Fremantle | C+ | 23 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 12 | Western Bulldogs | Jason Watts | 22yr | 185cm | 80kg | Werribee | B | 57 | 51 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 13 | Collingwood | Jon Ballantyne | 24yr | 190cm | 92kg | Bairnsdale | C | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 14 | Geelong | Cain Liddle | 18yr | 182cm | 83kg | Western U18 | D | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 15 | North Melbourne | Trent Nichols | 24yr | 173cm | 77kg | Sandy Bay | C+ | 52 (33) | 58 | 0 | 1 | Gardiner: 1996 | ||
| 16 | Hawthorn | Simon Lethlean | 18yr | 181cm | 80kg | Camberwell Grammar | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 17 | West Coast | Scott Thomson | 18yr | 183cm | 72kg | Subiaco | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 18 | Adelaide | Shane Tongerie | 22yr | 184cm | 83kg | Central District | D | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 19 | Carlton | Dean Rice | 25yr | 180cm | 92kg | Longwood/Salesian College/Geelong Reserves | C+ | 118 | 42 | 0 | 5 | Prem: 1995 | ||
| 20 | Essendon | Barry Young | 23yr | 183cm | 93kg | St Arnaud/Assumption College | C+ | 89 (76) | 45 | 0 | 7 | |||
| 21 | Sydney | Derek Kickett | 31yr | 180cm | 88kg | West Perth/Claremont/Central District | B+ | 63 | 73 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 22 | Sydney | Andrew Bomford | 19yr | 184cm | 89kg | North Shore (NSW) | C | 28 (15) | 9 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 24 | St Kilda | Adrian Burns | 22yr | 178cm | 71kg | Dromana | C | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 25 | Fitzroy | Peter Doyle | 20yr | 179cm | 80kg | Union | C | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 26 | Melbourne | John Carroll | 19yr | 178cm | 72kg | St Bedes Mentone (VAFA) | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 27 | Western Bulldogs | Daniel Hargraves | 18yr | 192cm | 93kg | Powelltown/Eastern U18 | C | 41 (38) | 62 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 28 | Collingwood | Trent Hotton | 20yr | 193cm | 90kg | Warragul/Northern U18 | C+ | 78 (17) | 50 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 29 | North Melbourne | David Muir | 22yr | 186cm | 97kg | Claremont | C | 20 (0) | 2 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 30 | Hawthorn | Shayne Stevenson | 23yr | 179cm | 81kg | Sandy Bay | C | 34 | 30 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 31 | Adelaide | Matthew Kluzek | 20yr | 187cm | 88kg | St Michael's College (SA)/Woodville-West Torrens | C | 24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 32 | Carlton | Brad Pearce | 22yr | 185cm | 85kg | South Launceston/St Kilda U19s | B | 77 | 151 | 0 | 6 | Prem: 1995 | ||
| 33 | St Kilda | Doug Bailey | 22yr | 190cm | 87kg | Xavier College/Old Xavs | C | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 34 | Collingwood | Stephen Ryan | 23yr | 190cm | 86kg | C+ | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 35 | Carlton | Peter Green | 19yr | 186cm | 86kg | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 36 | St Kilda | Kristian Bardsley | 21yr | 172cm | 77kg | Scoresby/St Joseph's College (Ferntree Gully) | C | 53 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 37 | Collingwood | Justin Staritski | 23yr | 181cm | 78kg | Pembroke School/Norwood | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 38 | St Kilda | Danny McCarthy | 21yr | 187cm | 80kg | Frankston | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 39 | St Kilda | Alister Carr | 20yr | 189cm | 90kg | South Bendigo | D | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |