Essendon's Dyson Heppell has just won the Rising Star Award, do you agree? I agree with it, Heppell and Shuey were the front runners, but Heppell has been a little better this year and has also played in a worse team and being in the backline makes his job even tougher, most of his games were outstanding. VOTING TOP 10 Dyson Heppell - 44 votes Luke Shuey - 37 Zac Smith - 21 David Swallow - 18 Jack Darling - 6 Sam Reid - 5 Daniel Menzel, Jack Steven, Trent McKenzie, Andrew Gaff - 1 I'm surprised Jacky Steven only ended up with 1, I tipped him to be 4th or 3rd.