After the retirement of Shannon Grant, Nathan Thompson and Jess Sinclair, the delisting of Leigh Brown, Eddie Sansbury, Blake Grima and Ben Davies, and the elevation of rookie-listed players Nathan Grima and Michael Wundke, the Roos are poised for another injection of youth.
Five places are also available on the rookie list, following the removal of Alan Obst and James Wilsen.
North will enter the November 29 draft at selection nine, continuing at 27, 43, 59 and 75, and chief of football Donald McDonald said important groundwork had been done by his recruiting staff.
"Our recruiters are putting them (the potential draftees) in an order of preference," he said. "That's where they're at, at the minute.
"(Talent manager) Cam Joyce and (recruiting manager) Bryce Lewis have done a power of work through the year and the last three weeks and, over the next couple of weeks, it's a just a matter of those guys just doing all of their background checks and the necessary due diligence to put them in a good position come draft day.
"They'll work out their order of preference and then, once they get to the draft, it'll just be a matter of sitting there and calling out the names as they present themselves."
McDonald was tight-lipped on who the Roos hope to secure with their first pick, no deviation from the 'best player available' theory he revealed to kangaroos.com.au last month.
"They're (Lewis and Joyce are) in a good position and they don't really make that public until the day itself," he said.
"They've gone through an exhaustive process so they'll be really clear in their minds as to who they want. I think that's all that matters.
"We'll definitely use our first four and we're going to bring five boys into the club, but whether the fifth pick's going to be the national [draft] or the fifth pick's going to be a pick in the pre-season [draft], that's yet to be determined."
Obst, a defender who played three games in 2008, has been given permission by the AFL to train with North, while Nathan Grima and Wundke have jumped into the pre-season.
"They were ecstatic [with their elevation], so it's great for them," McDonald said.
"We're all pretty happy about it, so now it's a really good opportunity for them to really put their head down and train as well as they can to get in the first NAB Cup game."
