title: 2001 AFL draft
text: The 2001 AFL draft consisted of a state draft, a body draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period.  The AFL draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League (AFL).
  
  In 2001 there were 83 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft. The Fremantle Dockers originally received the first pick in the national draft after finishing on the bottom of the ladder in the 2001 AFL season but they traded it to Hawthorn for Trent Croad. The No.1 draft pick was Luke Hodge, who became the first No.1 draft pick in many seasons to play in a premiership side.
  
  The draft is known widely as the "superdraft" due to the recruitment of modern star players such as Luke Hodge, Luke Ball, Chris Judd, Jimmy Bartel, Nick Dal Santo, Steve Johnson, Sam Mitchell, Leigh Montagna, Gary Ablett, Brian Lake, Matthew Boyd, James Kelly, Dane Swan, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Campbell Brown, and David Hale. All of the aforementioned players have played in at least one Grand Final; all but Dal Santo and Montagna have played in a premiership team; and Judd, Mitchell, and Hodge (three times) have captained their respective teams to victories in the 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015 grand finals. Furthermore, Judd (2004, 2010), Bartel (2007), Ablett (2009, 2013), Swan (2011) and Mitchell (2012) have also won the Brownlow Medal, the award for the best and fairest player in a season, while Judd (2005), Johnson (2007), Hodge (2008 and 2014), Bartel (2011) and Lake (2013) have all won a Norm Smith Medal (awarded to the best player on-field in the AFL Grand Final).
  
  Trades
  In alphabetical order of new clubs
  
  2001 national draft
  
  Notes
  
  2002 rookie draft
  
  2002 pre-season draft
  
  Honours
  Brownlow Medallists:
  Chris Judd: 2004 and 2010
  Jimmy Bartel: 2007
  Gary Ablett, Jr.: 2009 & 2013
  Dane Swan: 2011
  Sam Mitchell: 2012
  
  Norm Smith Medallists:
  Chris Judd: 2005
  Steve Johnson: 2007
  Luke Hodge: 2008, 2014
  Jimmy Bartel: 2011
  Brian Lake 2013
  
  Premierships:
  Lewis Roberts-Thomson: 2005, 2012
  Adam Schneider: 2005
  Chris Judd: 2006
  Mark Seaby: 2006
  Steven Armstrong: 2006
  Ashley Hansen: 2006
  Quinten Lynch: 2006
  Jimmy Bartel: 2007, 2009 and 2011
  Luke Hodge: 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
  Rick Ladson: 2008
  Campbell Brown: 2008
  James Kelly: 2007, 2009 and 2011
  Gary Ablett, Jr.: 2007, 2009
  Steve Johnson: 2007, 2009 and 2011
  Dane Swan: 2010
  Luke Ball: 2010
  James Podsiadly, 2011
  Martin Mattner: 2012
  Sam Mitchell: 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
  Brian Lake: 2013, 2014, 2015
  David Hale: 2013, 2014, 2015
  Matthew Boyd: 2016
  
  References
  
  AFL Draft
  Australian Football League draft