Strong small defender Steven Morris has won Richmond’s Bill Cosgrove/Harry Jenkins Best First Year Player Award at tonight’s Jack Dyer Medal award presentation.

The 23-year-old son of dual Richmond premiership player Kevin Morris played 21 games in his debut season with the Tigers after being recruited from SANFL club West Adelaide, where he had spent four years.

Morris averaged 16 disposals per game, with a season-high 23 against North Melbourne in Round 17.

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He was ranked No. 2 at the Club for the unglamorous, but valuable, one-percenters (73) and No. 7 at the Club for rebound-50s (37).

More than anything, however, Morris was a standout with his bravery, boldness, tenacity, fierce attack on the ball, and his total commitment to the team’s cause on a weekly basis throughout the season.

In other awards handed out during the evening, Shaun Grigg won the Club’s Most Improved Player Award, following a stellar season in which he averaged 25.5 disposals per game, Trent Cotchin took out the Francis Bourke Award, for the player who most embodies the team’s trademarks of awareness, belief and discipline, and Jack Riewoldt was presented with the Michael Roach Medal for being the Tigers’ leading goalkicker for the third year in-a-row.  

Riewoldt, who booted 65 goals, also won his second Coleman Medal, as the top goalkicker in the AFL competition.