Nathan Wright (born 16 February 1994) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played with the
St Kilda Football Club
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier league.
The club ...
in the
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...
(AFL).
Wright was St Kilda's first selection, number 24 overall, in the
2012 AFL Draft
The 2012 AFL draft consisted of five opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2012/13 Australian Football League off-season.
These were:
*2012 AFL trade week, trade period; which was held between 1 October and 26 October, and for the fir ...
. He was recruited from the
Dandenong Stingrays and was also a graduate of the
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Medicine
* Abbreviated Injury Scale, an anatomical-based coding system to classify and describe the severity of injuries
* Acute ischemic stroke, the thromboembolic type of stroke
* Androgen insensitivity syndrome, an intersex ...
-AFL Academy program. He made his AFL debut in the Round 3 match against .
In his fifth AFL game, against , Wright suffered a broken jaw when he was
bumped by
Eddie Betts. Despite a public apology by Betts, the AFL Match Review Panel deemed Betts' actions to be reckless rough conduct and suspended him from playing for three matches.
Wright was delisted at the end of 2018, he managed 5 games in his last two years and was injury prone.
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1994 births
Living people
St Kilda Football Club players
Dandenong Stingrays players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Sandringham Football Club players
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