They have already sent the prodigiously talented Trent McKenzie to new club Gold Coast.

Asked to name his top-five prospects heading into this year's national and rookie drafts, Jets regional manager Shane Sexton came up with Jack Fitzpatrick, Johnny Rayner, Kyle Hartigan, Majak Daw and Sean Tighe.

"The bottom line is whether you get drafted or rookied they will be going into a professional environment," he said. "From there it comes down to how much they want it."

Speculating if a player is to be drafted can be a lottery with the exception of the top handful of selections.

Sexton could not say with confidence that one or all of his players would make the final cut.

He did, however, make a compelling case for every player he named. If he was to put his hard-earned on the first Jet selected, it would be mobile ruckman/key position player Jack Fitzpatrick.

The Wyndhamvale beanpole was part of the Vic Metro set-up the past two seasons and blitzed the 20-metre sprint at the draft camp.

The MacKillop College student is also under-developed as illness robbed him of the chance to hit the gym as much as he would have liked.

"We're hopeful he'll get drafted," Sexton said. "He's 200-plus centimetres, can play tall back, tall forward or as a mobile ruckman and he's got a lot of ability."

The bolter in the pack - in a literal sense and in the recruiters' notebooks - is Johnny Rayner.

The Champion Data statistics ranked the boy from Keilor in the top-10 for possessions, clearances, hard-ball gets and handball receives in the TAC Cup last season.

After stress fractures in the back derailed his 2008 campaign, the athletic youngster bounced back with aplomb.

"At one stage you would have said he's an outside midfielder," Sexton said. 'Now he's an inside and outside midfielder.

Not only is Rayner a gifted athlete, he has a brain to match and is studying medicine at Melbourne University.