55 Facts About Jayden Short

Jayden Short was born on 24 January 1996 and is an Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Jayden Short was a premiership player with Richmond in 2019 and 2020, and in 2020 won the club's best and fairest award, the Jack Dyer Medal.

Jayden Short is best known for his efficient, penetrating kicks off half back and his excellent work rates.

Jayden Short played representative junior football with the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup in 2013 while completing his last year of high school at St Monica's College.

Jayden Short returned to the Knights in 2014, playing while working as a carpenter.

Jayden Short missed the first two months of that season due to jaw injury sustained in a night club fight but completed 2014 having played 13 matches, kicking 12 goals and holding averages of 22 disposals and four tackles per game.

Jayden Short was named among his club's best players in eight of his 13 matches.

Jayden Short was ranked the best kick in the TAC Cup that year, recording an efficiency of 73.7 per cent by foot across his matches in 2014.

Jayden Short supported the Carlton Football Club growing up and idolised Anthony Koutoufides.

Jayden Short played his first match for Richmond in the 2015 pre-season competition, kicking one goal in a forward line role during a loss to the Western Bulldogs at the Whitten Oval.

Jayden Short went unselected for an AFL debut when the season began, and instead played reserves-grade matches with the club's Victorian Football League side.

Jayden Short played primarily as a forward and occasionally as a stoppage-attending half-forward during this time, regularly kicking goals and receiving the coaches' public praise for his efforts with ball in hand, but copping criticism for his defensive efforts and subpar application of forward-half pressure.

Jayden Short had failed to make an AFL debut that year, but had played 10 VFL matches with averages of 13 disposals per game.

In March 2016 Jayden Short was upgraded to Richmond's senior list, replacing the injured Reece Conca.

Jayden Short made his debut in round 2 of that season and kicked a goal with his first kick in league football.

Jayden Short finished the game with an equal team-high three goals.

Jayden Short followed the match up with a poor performance the following week and was dropped to the club's reserves side.

Jayden Short remained in the side for three weeks before being dropped for matches in round 10 and 11.

Jayden Short did not miss another match after returning to play the Gold Coast in round 12.

Jayden Short finished his debut season having played 16 matches, playing predominantly in the backline and becoming a key kick-out taker for the side.

Jayden Short recorded a game-high 634 metres gained in that match.

Jayden Short remained in the senior side through round 7, where he became the subject of media attention after he was ruled to have deliberately rushed the ball out of bounds late in the final minutes of Richmond's five-point loss to the Western Bulldogs.

Jayden Short found himself in a similar situation in round 10 when he was ruled to have deliberately rushed a behind while being chased to the goal line by Essendon's Josh Green.

Jayden Short was dropped the following week and did not return to senior football in 2017.

Jayden Short's year did not end there however, as he joined Richmond's reserves side in their VFL finals run.

Jayden Short finished the season having played 16 matches at AFL level.

Jayden Short spent that off-season training with the midfield group, with an eye to playing a dual role of half-back and wing in the coming season.

Jayden Short impressed, holding a spot in the side even after Houli and Broad's return to availability.

Jayden Short was among Richmond's best in round 9's loss to West Coast, recording 14 disposals, 481 metres gained and adding two goals.

Jayden Short backed up that performance the following week with a game-high 10 rebound-50s, a team-high 652 metres gained and two AFL Coaches Association Player of the Year votes, the only Richmond player to record votes in that loss to Port Adelaide.

Jayden Short was at that point labelled by AFL Media as Richmond's most improved player, with the media organisation predicting he would be running fifth in the club's best and fairest count at that stage of the season.

Jayden Short added another four goals in the following four matches, including a two goal performance that saw him named among Richmond's best in his 50th career match, a round 19 win over Collingwood.

Jayden Short remained in form at AFL level through the end of the regular season and into the club's home qualifying final against Hawthorn, where he recorded 21 disposals.

Jayden Short contributed a further 18 disposals in what was a disappointing end to the year in a shock preliminary final knock-out loss to Collingwood.

Jayden Short was named at half-back in the AFL Players Association's 22 under 22 team and placed ninth in the Richmond best and fairest count.

Jayden Short finished the year having ranked first in the league for metres gained and 10th for rebound 50s.

Ahead of the 2019 season, Jayden Short was named by Fox Footy as the Richmond player most likely to make a significant rise in output that year.

Jayden Short started the 2019 campaign with appearances in each of the club's two pre-season matches before recording 20 disposals in round 1's season-opening match against Carlton.

Jayden Short kicked two goals and was among Richmond's best players in round 2, but the following week suffered a dislocated right elbow in the first quarter of a loss to Greater Western Sydney.

Jayden Short recorded 22 disposals, 706 metres gained and a game-high six rebound 50s in the 33-point victory.

Jayden Short continued to build form over the next month before setting a season-best with 26 disposals in a round 19 win over Collingwood.

Jayden Short remained with the senior side through the final four matches of the season and kicked a goal in round 22's win over West Coast, his first goal since his return from injury mid-season.

That earned his side a home preliminary final against Geelong, where Jayden Short added a further 13 disposals to help his side through to a grand final match-up against Greater Western Sydney.

Jayden Short recorded 19 disposals and seven marks in what was described by AFL Media as a "polished" performance.

Jayden Short finished the year having become a premiership player after playing 15 matches in that injury-interrupted season.

Jayden Short lifted his output immediately upon that move, earning four coaches association award votes for a performance that included a team-high 26 disposals and team-high 542 metres gained against Sydney in round 6, before adding one more vote in round 7's win over North Melbourne.

Jayden Short was equal-second-best on ground against the Western Bulldogs two weeks later, receiving four votes for another territory game that included 511 metres gained, before rising one week later to be first among all players in the league that year for total metres gained.

Jayden Short received coaches votes in each of the final three matches of the season including as second best on ground in the club's round 18 win over Adelaide, finishing the regular season having recorded 400 or more metres-gained in a league-best 13 matches.

Jayden Short recorded 22 disposals in the club's finals-opening loss to the Brisbane Lions, before adding 17 more in a semi-final win over St Kilda.

Jayden Short became a two-time premiership player in that match, contributing eight intercepts and six score involvements to help Richmond to a 31-point grand final win over Geelong.

Jayden Short placed second behind only Dustin Martin in the Norm Smith Medal votes for best afield, for that performance which included a personal season-best 25 disposals.

Jayden Short bested Martin in the club's best and fairest count though, securing the Jack Dyer Medal as the club's most outstanding player in 2020 after playing in all 21 possible matches and recording a league-best average of 480 metres gained per match.

Jayden Short plays as a rebounding half-back, utilising exceptional long kicking skills on either foot to set up offensive chains of possession.

Jayden Short previously played as a small forward in his very early AFL matches.

Jayden Short previously worked as a builder's labourer as a seventeen year old while playing for the Northern Knights.