Rising Star is a weekly award that is bs. The last ‘star’ it captured was Selwood back in 2007.
In it’s 27 years of identifying potentially elite players, imo only 6 have gone on to be worthy of the title (Buckley, Cousins, Goodes, Riewoldt, Mitchell and Selwood).
Not even the likes of Judd / Hodge and Roughead / Franklin get a look in. With Koschitzke and Deledio deemed to be more ‘star’ worthy.