Want-away Crow Jake Lever and West Coast’s Jeremy McGovern play similar roles for their respective clubs.

Lever has requested a trade back to Victoria, with the Demons reportedly offering him a four-year deal worth around $800,000 per season.

So what does that make McGovern - rated as one of the competition’s best intercept-marking defenders - worth?

Camera Icon Jeremy McGovern has every reason to be excited. Credit: Getty Images, Will Russell/AFL Media

In today’s edition of the Duff and Quarters AFL podcast, The West Australian’s chief football writer Mark Duffield and The Sunday Times sports editor Glen Quartermain believe McGovern’s value could be pushed towards the $1 million-per-season mark.

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McGovern is out of contract at the end of next season and will no doubt attract big offers from rival AFL clubs.

“If we’re hearing right and the Lever contract is between $800,000-$950,000 per year for an intercept defender, that will re-shape contract guidelines perhaps more than anyone of the $1 million contracts that have been signed,” Duffield said.

“I would’ve thought that Jeremy McGovern is the best intercept defender in the competition.

“Usually the guys that command that sort of money are your top-end midfielders like your (Dustin) Martins, your (Patrick) Dangerfields, your (Nat) Fyfes, or a monster forward that’s going to kick 60 (goals) a year which is Josh Kennedy or Buddy Franklin at the moment.”

Quartermain believes McGovern’s next contract at West Coast could be upped by at least $100,000 per season.

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