Corey Durdin (born 14 April 2002) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er playing for the

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The c ...

in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

(AFL). Durdin was selected at No. 37 in the 2020 National AFL draft by the Carlton Football Club. It was Carlton's first draft selection in that year. He played his first AFL game in round 22 of the 2021 season and in May 2022 was nominated as the

AFL Rising Star The AFL Rising Star is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best young player in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the year. It was first presented in the 1993 season, and was won by Nathan Bu ...

for that round. He played eleven games in 2023 before suffering a knee injury that required surgery. Upon his return to the VFL he sustained a shoulder injury that also required surgery. He returned to the senior side in March 2024 replacing injured midfielder

Sam Docherty Sam Docherty (born 17 October 1993) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited from the Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup with t ...

. He is distantly related to former Carlton teammate Sam Durdin, sharing a great-great-great-grandfather.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Durdin, Corey 2002 births Living people Australian rules footballers from South Australia Carlton Football Club players Central District Football Club players 21st-century Australian sportsmen