Cam Rayner is set to become just the ninth player in Brisbane Lions history to play every game in his first season. And the second-youngest.

Rayner is one of seven Lions players poised to close the season against West Coast at the Gabba on Sunday and go into the ‘played every game’ file for 2018.

He will be joined by Dayne Zorko, Stefan Martin, Allen Christensen, Eric Hipwood, Hugh McCluggage and Lewis Taylor.

It would have been eight had Alex Witherden not suffered a hamstring injury last Saturday night in the four-point win over the Gold Coast that brought an early end to his 2018 campaign.

Rayner, the number one pick in the 2017 AFL Draft, is set to be one of just three players from the 2017 Draft to play every game this season. The others are Collingwood’s Jaidyn Stephenson and Geelong’s Tim Kelly.

Four other 2017 draftees are one game short of a full season: Carlton’s Paddy Dow, Fremantle’s Adam Cerra, Melbourne’s Bayley Fritsch and Western Bulldogs’ Ed Richards.

A total of 66 Brisbane players have played a total of 123 full seasons.

This list is headed by Marcus Ashcroft, who played 10 full seasons, from Simon Black (6), Nigel Lappin (5), Jed Adcock, Luke Power and Jack Redden (4).

Taylor is set to complete his fourth full season, with Zorko in line for his third, Christensen and Martin their second, and Rayner and McCluggage their first.

Christensen will complete an extraordinary record with the Club – he played every game in his first season in 2015 and has chalked up another full year in 2018 after not playing a game at all due to shoulder problems in 2017.

Only eight of the 62 members of the ‘played every game’ club played every game in their first season in the AFL - inaugural Bears captain Mark Mickan and Matthew Campbell (1987), Nathan Buckley and Nathan Chapman (1993), Craig McRae (1995), Daniel Rich (2009), Todd Banfield (2010) and Taylor (2014).

And only Chapman, who debuted with the Brisbane Bears aged 17 years 324 days and completed the season at 18 years 114 days, was younger than Rayner.

Of the others to play every game in their first season, Rich was next youngest. He debuted at 18 years 294 days. Taylor and Banfield were 19, Buckley 20, McRae 21, Campbell 23 and Mickan 26.

Had Witherden not been injured the eight-member ‘played every game’ team of 2018 would have equalled the Club high of 2004, when Black, Lappin, Jason Akermanis, Mal Michael, Tim Notting, Chris Johnson, Martin Pike and Robert Copeland played every game.

Without Witherden the seven-member ‘played every game’ team of 2018 will equal the effort in 2009, when Rich, Luke Power, Jonathan Brown, Michael Rischitelli, Justin Sherman, Mitch Clark and Ash McGrath played every game.

Other currently listed Lions players who have played a full season for the Club are Harris Andrews, Ryan Bastinac, Ryan Lester and Marco Paparone with one each.

Other ex-players to have played full seasons for the Club have been Jonathan Brown (3), Dan Merrett (3), Tim Notting (3), Joel Patful (3), Daniel Rich (3), Mike Richardson (3), Rischitelli (3), Pearce Hanley (3), Adrian Fletcher (2), Shaun Hart (2),Chris Johnson (2), Matthew Leuenberger (2), Scott McIvor (2), Roger Merrett (2), Martin Pike (2), Justin Sherman (2), Darryl White (2),Jason Akermanis (1), David Bain (1), Todd Banfield (1), Daniel Bradshaw (1), Jared Brennan (1), Nathan Buckley (1), Matthew Campbell (1), Richard Champion (1), Nathan Chapman (1), Mitch Clark (1),, Matthew Clarke (1), Justin Clarke (1), Robert Copeland (1), Adam Heuskes (1), Matthew Kennedy (1), Justin Leppitsch (1), Martin Leslie (1), Gilbert McAdam (1), Ash McGrath (1), Michael McLean (1), Craig McRae (1), Mark Mickan (1), Jarrod Molloy (1), Danny Noonan (1), Tom Rockliff (1), Brad Scott (1), Brent Staker (1), Cheynee Stiller (1), Michael Voss (1), Mark Williams (1), Phil Walsh (1) and Mark Zanotti (1).

Last Saturday night’s hard-fought win over the Suns in Stef Martin’s 100^th game for the Club has seen the 2018 Lions equal the win tally of the 2017 Lions with one round to play.

Significantly, though, the team has jumped from 18^th to 15^th on the ladder, and the team's percentage has jumped from 74.3 to 89.9.

Interestingly, the average score for is down from 85.3 points per game last year to 83.5, but the average score against has tumbled from 114.8 to 92.9.

So, in pure number terms, the Lions are 20.1 points better every week.