As clubs gear up for this week's AFL draft, the class from five years ago looms as a cautionary tale.

The 2020 draft — known in some parts of the AFL world as the COVID draft — has gone down in infamy with the struggles of the players taken with first-round picks.

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Just three players from the class — Riley Thilthorpe (drafted second overall), Errol Gulden (32nd overall) and Max Holmes (20th overall) — have made an All-Australian squad of 40 or the actual final team.

For reference, the 2019 draft already has a total of 11 players who have achieved the same honour, while the

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