SOME of the league’s best draft prospects have put their bodies to the test this week at the AFL Draft Combine.

The gruelling tests were conducted from Tuesday to Friday, with the youngsters concluding the week with a run at Olympic Park.

Recruiters from all 18 clubs were seen casting an eye over the next generation of footballers, as Melbourne’s National Recruiting Manager Jason Taylor said it was a valuable chance to see how the kids handle the pressure.

“It’s just a good opportunity to … see the boys tested physically,” Taylor told Melbourne Media.

“The first two days of the combine were a pretty extensive interview process where I think we conducted 35 overall.

“So some really good opportunities to have some follow up questions and get it front and centre of your mind again.”

It’s been a challenging week for the draft hopefuls, and one where clubs find out who is best positioned to transition into the AFL.

But the test results aren’t necessarily the be-all and end-all.

“For some, you really want to see their intent on how they perform, and for others, you know how they are physically by watching them play,” Taylor said.

“So often you see how they cover the ground in a game, and you see their speed in a game.

“But it’s more about their intent and how they want to attack it and that shows a little bit more about their character.”

With a big recruiting period coming up for the Dees, now is a busy time for Taylor who will be hard at work for the next month, reviewing plenty of players’ performances from the year.

“I’ll be watching a lot of vision probably in the next few weeks,” he said.

“But we’re just going to have to trawl through everything - the psych profiling, the medicals - and bring it all together.

“[Then we’ll] get away and have our conference and start putting them in the correct order.”

Excitingly, the Dees currently hold pick No.3 in the 2019 National Draft and will be looking to bolster their list when it gets underway on the 27^th of November.