CARLTON senior coach David Teague has impressed some of the country’s brightest draft prospects.

With the 2019 NAB AFL Draft fast-approaching, Teague joined the process with Carlton’s recruiting staff in getting to know the prospective talent ahead of his first full season at the helm.

In most situations, it’s whether or not the impending draftee can impress the club they’re interviewing with.

However, in this instance, it was Teague who impressed top South Australian prospects Dylan Stephens and Cameron Taheny.

“The amount interest David Teague took in the interview – he asked the majority of the questions – it was really, really good,” Stephens told Superfooty’s Lowdown Podcast.

Stephens was pleasantly surprised with how open Carlton’s Senior Coach had been with him during his national combine meeting.

“He was open to talking about his experience of going from a caretaker to being appointed head coach,” he said.

“He was someone who was really, really good to talk to. I loved that interview.”

Teague has become known for his relationships-based coaching style in his short tenure as Senior Coach, as well as his time in various assistant coaching roles.

For Norwood young gun Cameron Taheny, having an AFL senior coach show such an interest in his career was “quite an experience”.

“David Teague pretty well ran the whole interview process at the combine,” Taheny said.

“You don’t expect to walk into an interview and have the head coach of a club fire away questions at you for 20 minutes.”