Austin had a great draft and continued the tradition of shunning free agency and instead building their team from the base up though the draft. So through this I will look at those we got through the draft. Austin have sent down a number of players but our first 2 picks have stayed up and are ready to make an instant impact for the team. Firstly there is Riles McTackles the defensive tackle. Riles was a beast in his year in the DSFL and plugs straight into the Austin line up replacing John-Caleb Bradburton who has been slacking over the past couple of years. McTackles has a great opportunity to learn from Austin’s ageing sack monster Kuusela. The other plug and play starter Austin drafted was linebacker Holden Summers. Summers has replaced the now traded Bakshi had has it the ground running winning defensive player of the game in his opening game for Austin getting 6 tackles and 2 sacks playing out of WLB. Last I would like to talk about the players we have sent down Gregor McGregor and Tree Glebman. Both these players are set to have amazing futures in Austin we will just have to wait a season before we se them in action, but their positive presence in the locker room is already being felt.
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