IT will be 651 days between AFL games for Jarrad Redden when he pulls on Port Adelaide’s teal NAB Challenge guernsey on Saturday.

The ruckman has been selected for his first game since Round 10, 2013 when the Power lost to the Bulldogs up in Darwin.

He has been named in the Power’s 29-man squad to take on Richmond in Albury on Saturday afternoon.

The game will serve as a valuable opportunity to test the mettle of some of the Power’s newest recruits and younger players.

Mitch Harvey, Darcy Byrne-Jones and Tom Logan will play their first games of this year’s NAB Challenge, while Sam Russell, Dougal Howard, Jesse Palmer and Johann Wagner, are set to make their first appearance at the elite level.

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This will be one of the Power’s youngest and least experienced teams in recent memory, with the omission of Boak, Ebert, Hamish Hartlett, Robbie Gray, Kane Cornes, Alipate Carlile, Jay Schulz and Justin Westhoff.

Port Adelaide NAB Challenge squad of 29 v Richmond

2. Kane Mitchell

3. Jake Neade

5. Matthew Broadbent

11. John Butcher

13. Cameron O’Shea

14. Paul Stewart

15. Karl Amon

16. Oliver Wines

17. Tom Clurey

19. Matt White

21. Jared Polec

23. Matthew Lobbe

24. Jarman Impey

26. Andrew Moore

29. Jasper Pittard

31. Mitchell Harvey

32. Dougal Howard

33. Darcy Byrne-Jones

34. Jarrad Redden

36. Jack Hombsch

37. Jesse Palmer

40. Aaron Young

41. Brendon Ah Chee

42. Tom Jonas

43. Johann Wagner

44. Tom Logan

46. Sam Gray

47. Sam Russell

48. Nathan Krakouer

In: Polec, Broadbent, Hombsch, Russell, Logan, Wagner, Palmer, Redden, Byrne-Jones, Howard, Harvey

Out: Boak, Ebert, Hartlett, Gray, Cornes, Carlile, Schulz, Westhoff