Sam Weideman and Will Setterfield were hardly the headline names of the trade period.

But Essendon’s bargain recruits are helping the club’s newest posterboy, No.5 draft pick Elijah Tsatas, settle into his first AFL pre-season.

Weideman lives near the Burwood boy and they carpool to Tullamarine together.

“He’s a wealth of knowledge, he’s been in the system for a while now,” Tsatas said of the man he sits next to for the 40-minute journey.

“He’s a great man as well.”

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