Carlton Reserve Career: 1999.
Reserve Games: 1
Reserve Goals: 0
Height: 174cm (5'8")
Weight: 70kg (11.0)
Guernsey No. 51 (1999).
DOB: 25th Janurary, 1981.

David Spriggs played reserve grade football for Carlton in 1999 as a top-up player. Spriggs was also used as a top-up player for Essendon reserves in 1999.

Spriggs was originally recruited from Beaumaris via TAC Cup team the Prahran Dragons.

He didn't play a senior game for Carlton.

Spriggs was recruited as the number 15 draft pick in the 1999 AFL Draft. He made his debut for Geelong in Round 1, 2000 against Fremantle. He was delisted by the Cats at the end of the 2004 season and nominated himself in the 2004 AFL Draft where he was picked up by the Sydney Swans for pick No. 47. Spriggs was actually doing pre-season training with Carlton when drafted by the Swans. He made his debut for Sydney in Round 3, 2005 against the Brisbane Lions. Spriggs failed to make a single AFL appearance in 2006, and was subsequently delisted by the Swans at the end of that season. He joined Port Melbourne in 2007.

In July 2006, Spriggs posed for Cosmopolitan magazine's Lonsdale Boys With Balls feature for the September 2006 issue.