Emerging Geelong superstar Tim Kelly is set for “the greatest pay rise” in AFL history, according to a former Brownlow medallist, and he may now be worth two top ten draft picks in a trade.

The future home for Kelly remains unclear. The Cats are very keen to keen the Brownlow Medal fancy, but after two years away from home in Western Australia with a young family he may move either to West Coast or Fremantle.

But whatever happens, the mature-aged draftee is set for a massive payday, according to Gerard Healy.

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“He’s going to get the greatest pay rise of any person in the competition ever, I suspect,” he told 3AW’s Sportsday.

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“From about $250,000 to somewhere north or south of a million bucks.”

The Cats last year rejected the Eagles’ trade offer which was worth the equivalent of Pick 2 on the AFL Draft Value index. But Kelly has only grown in value since then.

He currently leads the AFL Coaches Association’s AFL Champion Player Award, sitting on 69 votes (of a maximum of 120 if he was best on ground in every game this season) ahead of Carlton’s Patrick Cripps (62) and North Melbourne’s Ben Cunnington (56).

That could mean if Geelong does trade the midfield gun, it could receive multiple first round picks in return.

“Two first round picks went from the Bombers for Dylan Shiel. That’s a starting point,” Healy said.

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AFL great Leigh Matthews suggested that, with Kelly “the best performed player in the game” right now — and being just 24 years old — he is worth two top ten draft picks.

“Tim Kelly, he’s incredible, really. I think the coaches’ award, the coaches rate their own players and what they’ve done for their team, and the opposition players for how hard they’ve been to play against. So I always rate the coaches’ award,” Matthews said on 3AW.

“On that basis, you could say after Round 12, Tim Kelly’s been the best performed player in the game.

“Let’s face it, you wouldn’t swap him for next year’s number one pick, would you? I wouldn’t. He’s (24), so you wouldn’t swap him for an 18 year old who might be as good as Tim Kelly - yeah, you might get an extra five years - but he might not be anywhere near as good.

“If it was an independent panel doing the (trade), it’d be about Pick 1 and Pick 10, I reckon.”