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I noticed that GWS Giants ruckman Braydon Preuss weighs 118kg! Is he the heaviest player to have played in AFL/VFL history?

CHARLIE HARPER, BRIGHTON, VIC

LE: There have been 24 players who have weighed 110kg-plus in AFL/VFL history. Preuss is the heaviest current player, 4kg heavier than West Coast ruckman Nic Naitanui

Former North Melbourne premiership ruckman Mick

Nolan holds the record as the heaviest player in League history, weighing a whopping 124kg! Nicknamed the ‘Galloping Gasometer’, Nolan helped guide the Roos to their first premiership in 1975. The lightest player in history was Essendon’s George Shorten, who weighed only 51kg. Shorten played 52 games for the Bombers between 1923-26. Two-time Fremantle best and fairest and four-time All-Australian Aaron Sandilands was one of the greatest tap ruckmen to have played the game and is the equal record-holder as the tallest player in history, standing at 211cm, alongside former Cat and Bulldog Peter Street and current Magpie Mason Cox

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u Adrian Cox was recruited to Hawthorn from Hayfield and Gippsland under-18s in 1998. Cox made his debut in 1999 and went on to play 54 games for the Hawks until the end of 2004. His grandfather Roy Crozier played only one career game, for Footscray in round 11, 1952.

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