Tom Mitchell joins Hawks' Brownlow club

Tom Mitchell has won the 2018 Brownlow Medal, polling 28 votes.

He is the sixth Hawthorn player to win the AFL's most prestigious individual award.

HAWTHORN BROWNLOW MEDALLISTS

2018 - Tom Mitchell - 28 votes

2012 - Sam Mitchell - 26 (tied with Richmond's Trent Cotchin; medal originally awarded to then stripped from Essendon's Jobe Watson)

1999 - Shane Crawford - 28

1987 - John Platten - 20 (tied with St Kilda's Tony Lockett)

1986 - Robert DiPierdomenico - 17 (tied with Sydney's Greg Williams)

1949 - Col Austen - 23 (tied with South Melbourne's Ron Clegg)

PAST 10 BROWNLOW MEDALLISTS

2018 - Tom Mitchell (Hawthorn) - 28 votes

2017 - Dustin Martin (Richmond) - 36

2016 - Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong) - 35

2015 - Nathan Fyfe (Fremantle) - 31

2014 - Matt Priddis (West Coast) - 26

2013 - Gary Ablett Jr (Gold Coast) - 28

2012 - Trent Cotchin (Richmond), Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn) - 26

2011 - Dane Swan (Collingwood) - 34

2010 - Chris Judd (Carlton) - 30

2009 - Gary Ablett Jr (Geelong) - 30.