You can pack a career’s worth of ups and downs into 100 AFL games.

Just ask Nathan Brown, who, if selected, will break through the banner for the 100th time when Collingwood meets Richmond on Sunday.

Brown, recruited to the club with the tenth overall selection in the National Draft of 2006, has featured in a premiership, four finals campaigns and claimed an AFL Rising Star nomination and the Harry Collier Trophy as the team’s Best First Year Player in 2008 along the way.

VIDEO: Brown's Black & White Show.

He has also endured his share of setbacks, with a knee reconstruction in 2011 and surgery on his shoulder last season eating into his time spent on the field.

Resilient and committed, Brown has been a part of Collingwood’s leadership group since 2014 and remains one of the most respected players on the list.

His role in quelling St Kilda star Nick Riewoldt in successive Grand Finals in 2010 as a 21-year-old will go down in history as one of the finest performances by a Collingwood full back.

It was a feat made all the more meritorious by the fact that he was only called into the team at the last minute as a replacement for the injured Simon Prestigiacomo.

Still only 26 years of age, Brown is an important cog in Nathan Buckley’s team and is set to remain so for years to come.

Nathan Brown
AFL Games: 99
AFL Goals: 7
VFL Games: 37
VFL Goals: 6
Debut: Round 1 2008 v Fremantle at the MCG
Honours: Collingwood premiership side (2010), AFL Rising Star Nominee (2008), Harry Collier Trophy (Best First Year Player – 2008).