Elijah Tsatas

[2] Tsatas is friends with fellow 2022 draftee George Wardlaw, with whom he has played football since he was a child.

[3] Prior to selection, Tsatas suffered a serious foot injury that prevented him from playing for three months.

[3][4] Tsatas is a midfielder-wingman who is described as a player who "can run and carry, has a knack of finding space at stoppages, and has good disposal".

[5] Tsatas was showing good form in his first preseason with the Essendon Football Club, but then suffered an acute meniscus tear in his knee[6] in late Jan 23 during a training session, that required surgery and saw him miss the start of the AFL season.

[8] Tsatas grew up in Burwood[9] and played junior football for Surrey Park Panthers in the YJFL.