WHEREAS many young men go into their final TAC Cup season hoping to catch the eye of all AFL clubs, Jed Bews was desperate to impress just one.

Eligible to join Geelong under the father-son rule, thanks to his dad Andrew's 207-game career with the club, Jed had his heart set on joining the Cats.

"At the start of the year they pretty much said that 'we'll be watching you, and we'll see how you go during the year, and then we'll make a call later'," Bews explained.

On Monday morning, the Cats made that call when they secured Bews at the father-son selection meeting, which was held at Etihad Stadium prior to the start of trade week.

No other clubs put in a bid for Bews, so Geelong will be able officially bring him onto its list by using its final pick in November's NAB AFL National Draft.

"All my Falcons teammates have to wait until November to find out if they'll get drafted, but I already know, so it is a big relief," the 17-year-old (he turns 18 in December) said.

Bews, who is 186cm and 78kg, came through the ranks at Geelong League club Leopold and then played 26 games with the Geelong Falcons in the TAC Cup in 2010 and 2011.

Thanks to his good decision-making, he made his name as a dashing defender at the Falcons.

"I nearly fell over backwards when they started naming him in the back pocket during his first year down there," proud father Andrew Bews told afl.com.au's Trade Week Radio.

"I thought 'what are they doing to this kid?' because he didn't have a defensive side to his body.

"He was one of the better players at Leopold, so he'd always just played on the ball and run around chasing it."

Despite a slow start to this season, Jed was regularly among the best players during the middle stages of the Falcons' TAC Cup campaign.

Those performances saw him rewarded with a call-up to Geelong's VFL team in mid-July.

"That's definitely the time that I started thinking that I was a chance to go there as a father-son," Bews said.

He held his own in three VFL appearances, and it wasn't long before Geelong's recruiting staff were on the phone.

"Probably a month or two ago, before our last game, they organised a meeting with me out of the blue," Bews recalled.

"It was a pretty big relief when they said 'we'll take you'."

There are plenty of people who believe Bews has got what it takes to be an AFL star.

"He's got his dad's lateral movements, because Andrew was always ducking and weaving out of packs," Falcons regional manager Michael Turner told the Geelong Advertiser.

"But Jed's a lot taller, he's got a good vertical leap and he's super quick.

"He's got a lot of things going for him. I see him, well down the track, as a perfect replacement for Corey Enright."

Bews will be one of three father-son selections on Geelong's list (Matthew Scarlett and Tom Hawkins are the others).

He knows that coming into the club as the son of a great player will mean carrying a burden of expectation.

"I try not to think about it, I guess, and just play my own footy. Hopefully I can do well."

As Bews contemplates his first pre-season with the reigning premier, he does have a little secret to reveal to the Geelong fans.

Unlike some of the Cats' most famous father-son selections, he didn't grow up barracking for the navy blue and white hoops.

"My dad played at Brisbane [between 1994 and '98], and I was born around the time that we moved to Brisbane, so I spent the first five years of my life up there," Bews revealed.

"I've always kept an eye on the Cats, but until now I've been a rock-solid Lions supporter."