A prolific ball-winner, Jack Macrae is firmly entrenched as one of the Bulldogs midfield prime-movers, and one of the league's premier midfielders. Arriving at the Club as a creative outside-midfielder via pick number six in the 2012 National Draft, the ever-so consistent Macrae has gone onto hone his craft as a contested ball-winner. He made an immediate impact after debuting in Round 4, 2013, winning the Chris Grant Best First Year player award, and showed no sign of second-year blues, consolidating a midfield role and finishing runner-up in the Charles Sutton Medal. The 2016 premiership player arguably had his best season in 2020 though, claiming back-to-back All Australian honours, a seventh-consecutive top 10 best-and-fairest finish, and polling 15 Brownlow votes to produce a career-best equal-fifth finish.