West Coast ball magnet Matt Priddis has polled 26 votes to win the Brownlow Medal.

Priddis missed out on All-Australian selection this year, but earned two votes in the final round of the AFL season to wrap up the sport’s greatest individual honour.

“I didn’t think I’d be polling mid-20s,” a shocked Priddis said of the honour.

Ineligible Fremantle on-baller Nat Fyfe threatened to follow in the footsteps of Corey McKernan and Chris Grant, the only two suspended players to have topped a Brownlow medal count.

Fyfe finished with 25 votes, despite missing four games due to suspension.

Priddis is the first Eagle to win the award since Ben Cousins in 2005.