stats are so misleading.Cumby has 4 hard ball gets in his last 16 AFL matches at average 0.25 per game. Jaidyn Stenpheson averages almost 3 times as many as that across his last 3 seasons. Dusty in his last decet season(2023) was winning 2.9 per game.
As to that, Dusty won his offensive 1 v 1's at the highest rate ever recorded in the AFL. And convernted that into goals like a precision insrument. Cumby is nowhere near on that level, so has to have a greater defensive focus. Dusty robbed himself of defensive statistics by simply winning so may contests. In any event, he played the role the team wanted him to play defensively.