page_title: Nathan Broad
section_title: AFL career
hierarchical_section_title: Nathan Broad / AFL career
caption_attribution_description: English: Nathan Broad with Richmond during a JLT Community Series match against Melbourne in Shepparton in March 2019.
context_page_description: Nathan Broad is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is a two-time premiership player with the club, winning in 2017 and 2019.
context_section_description: Broad was drafted by Richmond with the club's third selection and the 67th overall in the 2015 AFL national draft.
  He first represented Richmond in a pre-season match against Fremantle in his home state, playing a dual role as a general and rebounding defender. Despite this, and an all-around impressive pre-season, he would be restrained to playing with the Richmond's reserves side in the VFL for much of his first season at the club. He eventually made his AFL debut in round 14 of the 2016 AFL season against Brisbane in a home game at the MCG. He had been named as an emergency for the match but was called in to play after teammate Jake Batchelor was removed due to injury. He recorded 14 disposals and five marks on debut. Broad played in the club's next match as well, before being dropped and returning to VFL level for the rest of the season. He finished the year having played just the two matches at senior level.
  For the second straight year Broad started the 2017 season without gaining AFL selection. Just days before the VFL season was to start though he suffered an AC joint injury in his right shoulder while training in April 2017. He was subsequently added to the club's long term injury list and missed eight weeks of football at all levels as a result. He returned to play for the club's reserve side in the VFL in early June. After showing good form at VFL level he was called up to AFL action in round 17. He remained in the side for the rest of the home and away season, holding averages of 15.1 disposals and 4.3 marks per game over this stretch. In the first week of the finals Broad contributed 15 disposals and eight marks towards Richmond's win over Geelong before helping shut down GWS forward Toby Greene in the preliminary final two weeks later. From there, Broad's side played off against minor premiers Adelaide in the 2017 AFL Grand Final. He kept his direct opponent Tom Lynch goalless, while contributing 13 disposals of his own to Richmond's 48 point victory. As a result, he won a premiership medal in his tenth game that season and twelfth of his career.
  In the month following his side's 2017 premiership win, Broad was embroiled in scandal for distributing a photograph of a nude woman without consent, the result of which saw him suspended for the first three matches of the 2018 AFL season. He did however play in one pre-season series match with the club as well as in Richmond's side at the Sydney tournament of the AFLX exhibition series in February. Broad played with the club's reserves team in the VFL during the period of his suspension as well as in one further match, before being re-called to senior level in round 5. Broad suffered a corked glute muscle in the lead up to Richmond's round 9 match against West Coast, but ultimately played in the match despite the injury. At the mid-season bye, Broad had not missed a game since his return to AFL level, while holding averages of 10.6 disposals and three marks per game. Broad equaled a career-best 19 disposals in the first match following the bye, but suffered a fractured cheekbone in the last quarter of that win over Adelaide. That injury required surgery to repair and caused him to miss one match. Broad played two consecutive matches upon his return, but was rested in round 20 due to calf soreness. He played in each of the club's final three home and away matches including his return in round 21's win over Gold Coast. In Richmond's home qualifying final win over Hawthorn, Broad managed just three disposals. That performance, along with consecutive four disposal games to close out the home and away season, saw Broad's continuing selection under some media speculation. Despite that form he held his spot in Richmond's next match, a shock preliminary final loss to Collingwood in which he contributed disposals 10 and two marks and that saw Richmond's season brought to a close.
  Broad was tipped to fall out of Richmond's best 22 by AFL Media in the summer before the 2019 season, though strong performances in each of the club's two pre-season matches would ultimately earn 
caption: Broad in the 2019 pre-season series
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