| Year | Club | Player | Games | Goals | Votes | Honours | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Geelong | Shawn Lewfatt | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1997 | Port Adelaide | Antony Sheehan | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1998 | West Coast | Mark Pearson | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1999 | Hawthorn | Shane Tuck | 173 (0) | 74 | 35 | ||
| 2000 | Richmond | Adrian Burgiel | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2001 | Collingwood | Justin Crow | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2002 | Geelong | Travis Jorgensen | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2003 | Hawthorn | Michael Rix | 29 (0) | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2004 | Fremantle | Jack Juniper | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2005 | Western Bulldogs | ||||||
| 2006 | Richmond | Jake King | 107 | 79 | 4 | ||
| 2007 | St Kilda | Luke Miles | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2008 | Richmond | David Gourdis | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2009 | Fremantle | Alex Silvagni | 60 (53) | 10 | 0 | ||
| 2010 | St Kilda | Tom Curren | 25 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 2011 | Melbourne | Tom Couch | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2012 | North Melbourne | Ben Speight | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2013 | Adelaide | James Battersby | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | Carlton | Brad Walsh | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2015 | Melbourne | Viv Michie | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | Collingwood | Henry Schade | 8 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2017 | St Kilda | Lewis Pierce | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2018 | Adelaide | Paul Hunter | 7 (0) | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2019 | Essendon | ||||||
| 2020 | GWS | Zach Sproule | 16 | 13 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | Fremantle | Connor Blakely | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | St Kilda | ||||||
| 2023 | Gold Coast | Jack Mahony | 0 | 0 | 0 |