Colin Thomson, the Scottish Rugby Union's head of community rugby, expressed the hope that all of them would be able to pass on the benefit of their top-level experience to ambitious players within the largely amateur club game.
Thomson said: "Scottish Rugby has worked hard in tandem with its professional teams to strengthen the links with clubs and will continue to cement the improving relationship between the professional and club games with pro-player visits to all clubs increasing every year.
"Clearly, not all of these players will play for that club during a season, but anything that gives professional players the opportunity to play and share their experiences with some of the best players in top-tier club rugby is to be welcomed."
Players were split into three categories with each club selecting players based on their 2008/2009 league position with Stewart’s-Melville and Dundee HSFP getting first and second pick having been promoted from Scottish Hydro Premier 2 as runners-up and winners.
Category 3 : strong possibility will play regularly for clubs
Category 2 : possibly will play for clubs, but rarely and probably only for return from injury reasons
Category 1 : will NOT play for clubs except in extreme circumstances
Among the Glasgow players Tim Barker, the Ulster-born lock, is the only one of the six players drafted by Hawks who did not play for the club before turning professional while Heriot’s made sure they kept David McCall by putting him first in their draft list.
Bernardo Stortoni was drafted by West of Scotland where he has been doing some coaching, though in his case the draft had to be massaged with the co-operation of all involved to get him there with Stewart’s Melville heading a list of clubs that agreed to forgo their choice in order to leave him free to stay at Burnbrae.
Stewart’s-Melville FP - R Grant, A Kelly, R Rennie, Calum Forrester, Kevin Tkachuk, A MacDonald
Dundee HSFP - F McKenzie, D Young, Richie Vernon, Hefin O'Hare, Rob Dewey, S Webster, DTH van der Merwe
Glasgow Hawks - Mike Adamson, Colin Shaw, Richie Gray, Tim Barker, Graeme Morrison, Max Evans
Edinburgh Accies - R Samson, K Traynor, S MacLeod, G Laidlaw, M Blair, P Godman
Watsonians - S Turnbull, A Hogg, A Turnbull, Colin Gregor, J Hamilton, Thom Evans
Currie - Chris Kinloch, D Blair, Scott Forrest, Mark McMillan, B Cairns, Dougie Hall
West of Scotland - Jon Welsh, Peter Murchie, James Eddie, Alastair Kellock, Fergus Thomson, Johnnie Beattie, Bernardo Stortoni
Selkirk - S Crombie, S Cross, J Thompson, C Hamilton, C Paterson, John Barclay
Melrose - Peter Horne, M Robertson, Dan Turner, R Ford, Chris Cusiter, Kelly Brown
Boroughmuir - A Easson, R Grant, S Jones, D Callam, A Jacobsen, Justin Va'a
Heriot's - Dave McCall, S Newlands, J Houston, G Cross, N De Luca, Moray Low
Ayr - T Visser, Hamish Mitchell, Pat MacArthur, Ed Kalman, Ruaridh Jackson, Dan Parks