Adelaide Crows explore trade deal for Port Adelaide Power’s former AFLW Rising Star winner Hannah Ewings - sportsnewsfoot

ADELAIDE is exploring a late trade deal for Port Adelaide’s former NAB AFLW Rising Star winner Hannah Ewings.

The two South Australian clubs have been in discussions around a potential deal for Ewings across recent days, with optimism the 20-year-old will join the Crows by Wednesday’s 4pm AEDT trade deadline.

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Ewings sat out the entirety of the 2024 campaign with the Power, after the club confirmed in August that she would take “extended personal leave from the group”.

It had followed a superb start to the young midfielder’s career, with Ewings claiming the club’s first-ever best and fairest award and winning Rising Star honours in 2022 (season seven) in her first year at AFLW level.

Ewings averaged 13.9 disposals and 4.9 tackles across that campaign, having been taken with the third pick in Port Adelaide’s first ever draft, emerging as one of the competition’s brightest young midfield prospects.

Should a trade for Ewings progress, it is likely to centre around one of Adelaide’s picks at No.39 or 43, after the club bolstered its draft hand following a four-club deal that was lodged with the AFL on Monday evening.

The four-club deal, which the League ticked off early on Tuesday morning, saw Adelaide duo Najwa Allen and Taylah Levy head to Hawthorn and Greater Western Sydney respectively.

The Giants landed Levy and Western Bulldogs defender Eleanor Brown, while the Dogs secured Lou Stephenson from the Hawks. Three draft picks also exchanged hands among the four clubs.

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Adelaide is due to start next week’s first ever national Telstra AFLW Draft with the No.12 selection, having jumped up the draft order within a six-club, one-player, 16-pick deal that was agreed last Friday.

Port Adelaide is currently due to pick at No.15, but is also expected to bolster its defensive stocks with the addition of Sydney youngster Ella Heads by this Wednesday’s trade deadline.