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Jai Culley

Melbourne

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AFL career

23 games11 goals

Debut
R18 2022 v HAW17 July 2022
Most recent
R7 2026 v RCH24 Apr 2026

Stats

AFL

2026
MEL
7
6.4
5.9
12.3
3.0
0.6
0.3
2.1
0.1
0.4
50
60
2025
MEL
4
6.3
7.3
13.5
3.5
1.3
0.3
2.8
0.8
0.0
60
67
2024
WCE
3
6.0
3.3
9.3
1.7
1.0
0.7
2.3
0.3
0.3
40
43
2023
WCE
5
2.8
5.6
8.4
1.6
0.6
0.8
3.0
1.0
0.4
41
43
2022
WCE
4
7.0
6.3
13.3
2.0
0.8
1.5
7.5
0.3
0.3
68
63

VFL

2025
CSY
14
10.0
7.7
17.7
5.0
1.1
1.3
3.8
0.5
0.8
77
112

WAFL

2024
WCE
14
8.1
10.1
18.3
3.6
1.3
1.1
5.1
0.8
0.7
81
2022
WCE
6
8.5
7.3
15.8
2.5
1.0
1.7
4.5
0.0
0.7
62
League
Season
RCH
MCG
R7
4
4
8
2
1
1
0
0
0.0
24
41
0
0
BRL
MCG
R6
11
7
18
6
1
0
0
4
0.0
82
90
5
0
ESS
AO
R5
3
7
10
1
0
0
0
2
0.0
34
33
10
0
GCS
MCG
R4
7
2
9
4
0
0
0
1
0.2
43
46
0
0
CAR
MCG
R3
8
10
18
3
1
0
0
3
0.0
66
85
3
0
FRE
OS
R2
5
7
12
1
0
0
0
3
0.0
44
62
3
0
STK
MCG
R1
7
4
11
4
1
1
0
2
1.1
54
63
0
0

Profile

Born
24 Feb 2003 (age 23y 240d)
Height
194 cm
Weight
91 kg

Teams

Fantasy

Selected with the first pick in the 2022 Mid-Season Rookie Draft, Jai Culley arrived at West Coast as a promising big-bodied midfielder capable of impacting the scoreboard. The Dandenong Stingrays product showed immediate potential, highlighted by a breakout four-goal performance against Port Adelaide, but his momentum was cruelly halted by a ruptured ACL in early 2023. Although he successfully rehabilitated to return to senior football the following year, Culley struggled to command a regular spot in the Eagles' evolving engine room and was delisted at the conclusion of the 2024 season. Handed a career lifeline by Melbourne ahead of the 2025 campaign, the 193cm utility offers a unique point of difference as a contested ball-winner with strong tackling pressure, now tasked with translating his physical attributes into consistent performance at his second club.