Maverick Weller excited to be picked up by St Kilda in rookie draft Maverick Weller (left) trains hard at St Kilda. Cameron Wood was as surprised as anyone to be given a career lifeline, former coach Michael Malthouse taking the ruckman in the rookie draft. NEW St Kilda midfielder Maverick Weller spent his weeks in the football wilderness taking a hammering in the boxing gym The former Gold Coast Sun completed seven boxing sessions a week and consulted a mental skills coach, former NRL player Mark Edmondson, to help ready him for a second AFL chance at Seaford. Weller, 21, has been one of the standouts on the Saints training track in recent weeks and on Wednesday officially became the club's fifth mature-age recruit when he was taken pick No.20 in the rookie draft. Weller, who played 28 games in his first two years at the Suns before being hit by a broken scapula, joins new faces Shane Savage (Hawthorn), Billy Longer (Brisbane), Josh Bruce (GWS) and Luke Delaney (North Melbourne) in the Saints dramatic list overhaul. Maverick Weller played 28 games for Gold Coast Suns. Despite the challenges facing the Saints this season, after losing a core of senior players including Ben McEvoy and Nick Dal Santo, Weller can see a bright future. "There's a lot of guys that are my age and under at the club, so it's a great opportunity for me, after four or five years (AFL) experience, to help start something special with those guys," Weller said. The 182cm playmaker said the gruelling boxing training and mental coaching helped refresh his mindset after his time at the Suns finished. "It has definitely held me in good stead," he said. All the pressure I feel is (put on) by myself. So it's good having someone there, everyone has mentors to talk to and he (Edmondson) really helped me out. I was able to do some good sessions and put some steps in place, which is exciting for me.