Sam Jacobs

Sam Jacobs played 208 senior AFL games chiefly for Adelaide, as well as Carlton and Greater Western Sydney between 2009 and 2020, lining up most often as a ruckman. On 23-0, Sam Jacobs's career spans 3 decades, from the 2000s to the 2020s of football.

Our era-fair model rates Sam Jacobs at a peak of 87 out of 100, reached in the 2010s. That figure measures Sam Jacobs only against the players of that same era — the teammates and opponents actually faced — using standardised output, honours and finals impact, so a 2010s ruckman can be compared fairly with players from any other decade of the game.

Sam Jacobs polled 30 Brownlow Medal votes across the career.

Season by season, the data credits Sam Jacobs with a best season of 360 disposals in 2017, 50 career goals and a top Brownlow year of 10 votes in 2017. The full year-by-year breakdown is below.