Essendon skipper Jobe Watson will learn in February whether he will be stripped of the 2012 Brownlow Medal after he one was one of 34 players hit with one-year bans by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for violating anti-doping rules.
The AFL Commission will review the matter in February, with Watson to be given the opportunity to address the meeting.
Watson polled 30 votes to win the 2012 Brownlow Medal by four votes from Richmond’s Trent Cotchin and Hawthorn’s Sam Mitchell.