Ben Miller (born 31 August 1999) is a professional
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er playing for the
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL). He was drafted by Richmond with the 63rd pick in the
2017 AFL national draft and made his debut for the club in round 23 of the 2021 season. In 2019 he was a VFL premiership player while playing reserves grade football for Richmond.
Early life and junior football
Miller grew up in Lamington in
Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...
in regional
Western Australia
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.
He represented his state at the 2015 AFL Under 16 Championships and again at the
2017 AFL Under 18 Championships
The 2017 NAB AFL Under 18 Championships was the 22nd edition of the AFL Under 18 Championships.
For the previous two decades, the Under-18 Championships had been split into two divisions – with traditional football regions Vic Metro, Vic Coun ...
.
Miller played local football with
Railways
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in the
Goldfields Football League
The Goldfields Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Founded in 1896 as Hannans District Football Association, the league enjoyed a seat and full voting rights on the Australi ...
and was a part of the club's premiership side in 2017.
He also played junior representative football with
Subiaco in the
WAFL colts league.
AFL career
Miller was drafted by with the club's fifth pick and the 63rd selection overall in the
2017 AFL national draft.
In 2019, Miller was a VFL premiership player while playing with Richmond's reserves side at the lower level.
After three-years on the Richmond list without playing a senior match, Miller was selected to make his AFL debut in the final round of 2021 season.
Statistics
''Updated to the end of round 23, 2022''.
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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! colspan=3, Career
! 11
! 3
! 0
! 52
! 38
! 90
! 29
! 25
! 33
! 0.3
! 0.0
! 4.7
! 3.5
! 8.2
! 2.6
! 2.3
! 3.0
References
External links
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Ben Miller's profileat AFL Draft Central
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Living people
1999 births
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Richmond Football Club players