[1] He joined the Casey Scorpions in the Victorian Football League in 2006, winning selection in the VFL's under-23 team.
[3] Silvagni attended the Victorian state screening session prior to the 2006 AFL Draft, but was not selected by any teams.
[6] Silvagni made his debut for Fremantle in the opening round of the 2010 AFL season and performed well, taking 7 marks and gathering 14 possessions, including an impressive 55-metre goal as Fremantle recorded a 56-point victory over the Adelaide Football Club.
[7] The celebrations, however, were tempered when Silvagni's former captain at the Casey Scorpions, Kyle Matthews, was knocked unconscious when he was involved in a fight after watching the game at a hotel in Hawthorn.
[12] He had a widely-remembered best on ground performance on his Carlton debut in Round 6, 2017 against the Sydney Swans, where he lined up as the direct opponent to the season's Coleman medallist Lance Franklin, and kept him to one goal, and bested Franklin one-on-one in several spectacular open-field chases and contests.