RICHMOND star Dustin Martin has shown the capacity to perform on-field feats few other players even attempt. 

Next Saturday when the Tigers take on Adelaide in the Grand Final, the champion could do something no other player has done before.

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Presuming he wins the Brownlow Medal on Monday, where he will start an unbackable favourite, he will line up in the Tigers' clash strip with a chance of scooping the pool by taking home both a Norm Smith and premiership medal. 

No player has even done that in the same season with Greg Williams, James Hird, Nathan Buckley, Simon Black, Chris Judd and Jimmy Bartel the six champions to have won a Brownlow and Norm Smith medal in different seasons.

Black, Buckley and Bartel had chances to complete the treble in 2002, 2003 and 2007 after entering a Grand Final following a Brownlow win earlier in the week.

Black and Bartel won a flag but did not land the Norm Smith in the same season as their Brownlow while Buckley never won a flag. 

Martin's year has been so good he has already won the AFLPA MVP and the AFL Coaches Association Award in 2017, and been close to best on ground in both of Richmond's finals. 

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Admittedly a few presumptions are being made here but when it comes to Martin they are not out of this world, even though his play at times can be described as such. 

His coach knows his value, returning the jubilant fist pump the champion gave him when he entered the rooms victorious after the win. 

Martin had kicked 3.1 in the second half to break the game open after Damien Hardwick moved him forward at half-time, having played 16 per cent of game time in the forward half this season.

"That is the great thing about great players, there is a chess piece there I can move at various stages," Hardwick said. 

On Monday and Saturday, history awaits for the Tigers and Martin. 

Should he complete the impossible feat he will be feted forever. 

Then he'll just have to play out the next seven years with a million bucks going into the bank each season.