FIVE Bendigo Football Club players are on the radar of AFL clubs heading into the two drafts later this month.The AFL’s pre-season and rookie drafts will be held on December 13, with Ben Duscher, Matt Little, Tom Campbell, Sam Dunnell and Shane Biggs, who all played VFL with Bendigo this year, considered chances of being picked up.“Those five guys are being talked about,” Bendigo Football Club football manager Graham Pratt said yesterday.“Whether or not they get picked up, time will tell, but they are a chance, so there’s the potential there that we could lose those five guys, which opens up opportunities for some new guys to come on board.”Full-forward Little, who was Bendigo’s leading goalkicker this year with 50, has been given permission to train with Essendon, where his cousin, James Hird, is coach.The other four players are training with Bendigo with either the Melbourne or Bendigo-based groups.Duscher is considered a strong chance of being drafted after an impressive 2011 season with Bendigo in which the skipper won the best and fairest, despite missing five games through injury.If any of Duscher, Little, Campbell, Dunnell or Biggs are drafted, they will follow in the footsteps of Tory Dickson.After kicking 48 goals and finishing second in Bendigo’s best and fairest, Dickson was last week selected by the Western Bulldogs with pick No. 57 at the National Draft.“Tory is a mature body who has been around the system for a while,” Pratt said.“Both Brendan McCartney (Bulldogs coach) and Shannon Grant (assistant coach) are big wraps for him.”Also drafted last week was Bendigo Pioneer Sam Kerridge, who was taken by Adelaide at selection No. 27.Kerridge played three VFL games for Bendigo this year, among them the losing elimination final to the Northern Bullants when he was one of the best players.“I certainly believe Sam showed enough in his three games with us that he’s capable of taking the next step,” Pratt said.“He was in our best players in the final against the Northern Bullants. He played in the midfield against some pretty good players, so it’s not as if he hasn’t been tested.”Among the players training with Bendigo is Bendigo Football League players Wayne Schultz (Castlemaine), Jack Redpath (Kyneton) and Jack Geary (Golden Square).