2014 MLS Draft Big Board: Dec. 25 edition
The 2014 MLS SuperDraft is now less than a month away. The season is over, leaving next month's combine the last chance for pro hopefuls to impress scouts as they look to jump start their careers at the next level.
Below is the second TopDrawerSoccer.com Big Board for the 2014 draft. Compiled by watching games, speaking with coaches and scouts around the country, it's meant as an examination of the kind of impact players will have at the MLS level. Future updates will come out prior to the draft with an expanded field of players included. Generation adidas class has still not been solified, although players like Christian Dean, Marlon Hairston, Eric Miller, Schillo Tshuma, Andre Blake, Cyle Larin and AJ Cochran are rumored to be leaving school early.
A few things to watch out for when going down the list: included in the field below are players with ties to MLS academies, who are eligible to be signed by an MLS team as a homegrown player. Those players, denoted with an asterisk next to their name, will be removed from the list after signing with a club. Harrison Shipp has been removed because he is confirmed as a Chicago Fire homegrown player, while Sebastien Ibegha is expected to try his luck in Europe.
Rank | Name | Position | Team |
1 | Patrick Mullins | F | Maryland |
2 | Steve Neumann | F | Georgetown |
3 | Steve Birnbaum | D | California |
4 | Kyle Venter | D | New Mexico |
5 | Pedro Ribeiro | MF | Coastal Carolina |
6 | Jared Watts | MF | Wake Forest |
7 | Ben Sweat | D | South Florida |
8 | JJ Koval | MF | Stanford |
9 | Mackenzie Pridham | F | Cal Poly |
10 | Victor Chavez | F | UCLA |
11 | Kevin Cope | D | Michigan State |
12 | Pete Caringi | F | UMBC |
13 | Joey Dillon | MF | Georgetown |
14 | Nick Hagglund | D | Xavier |
15 | Luca Gimenez | MF/F | Wake Forest |
16 | Reinaldo Brenes | F | Akron |
17 | Aodhan Quinn | MF/F | Akron |
18 | Grant Van De Casteele | D | Notre Dame |
19 | Carlos Benavides | MF/F | Cal State Northridge |
20 | Marco Franco | D | UC Irvine |
21 | Jimmy Ockford | D | Louisville |
22 | Mark Sherrod | F | Memphis |
23 | Joe Sofia | D | UCLA |
24 | Romena Bowie | MF | VCU |
25 | Enrique Cardenas | F | UC Irvine |
26 | Taylor Peay* | D | Washington |
27 | Alex Martinez | MF/F | NC State |
28 | Alex Sweetin* | MF | Saint Louis |
29 | Thomas McNamara | MF | Clemson |
30 | Tomislav Zadro | MF | Wisconsin |
31 | Robbie Derschang | MF | Akron |
32 | Nikita Kotlov | MF | Indiana |
33 | Fifi Baiden | MF | UC Santa Barbara |
34 | Bryan Ciesiulka* | MF | Marquette |
35 | Michael Kafari | MF | New Mexico |
36 | Patrick Slogic* | D | Cornell |
37 | Mamadou Doudou Diouf | F | Connecticut |
38 | Peter Schmetz | D | UC Santa Barbara |
39 | Jason Plumhoff | MF | La Salle |
40 | Tyler Gibson | MF | Charlotte |
41 | Alec Sundly | MF | California |
42 | Chris Duvall | D | Wake Forest |
43 | Michael Calderon | MF | New Mexico |
44 | Achille Campion | F | UC Santa Barbara |
45 | Zach Bolden* | F | Denver |
46 | Martin Ontiveros | MF | Furman |
47 | Miguel Gonzalez | F | Seattle |
48 | Eric Stevenson* | MF | Akron |
49 | Tolani Ibikunle | D | Wake Forest |
50 | A.J. Corrado | MF | Indiana |
51 | Ryan Neil | MF | California |
52 | Kristopher Tyrpak | F | Houston Baptist |
53 | Kadeem Dacres | MF | UMBC |
54 | Matt Walker* | F/MF | Xavier |
55 | Tim Hopkinson | F | Old Dominion |
56 | Michael Harris | D | Washington |
57 | Wojciech Wojcik* | F | Bradley |
58 | Chris Ritter* | MF | Northwestern |
59 | Martin Seiler | D | Penn State |
60 | Blake Wise | MF | San Diego State |
61 | John McCarthy | GK | La Salle |
62 | Daniel Welsh | D | UC Santa Barbara |
63 | George Fochive | MF | Connecticut |
64 | Zach Barnes | MF | Creighton |
65 | Rafael Diaz | GK | St. John's |
66 | David Geno | F | East Tennessee State |
67 | Nazmi Albadawi | MF | NC State |
68 | Fabio Pereira | MF | Michigan |
69 | Josh Phillips | D | Gonzaga |
70 | Kees Heemskerk | GK | College of Charleston |
71 | Justin Portillo | F | Coastal Carolina |
72 | Liam Collins | MF | Memphis |
73 | Ryan Caballero | GK | Gonzaga |
74 | Omar Mata | MF/F | Tulsa |
75 | Brian Billings | GK | Bradley |
76 | Jacob Bushue | MF/D | Indiana |
77 | Adnan Gabeljic | F | Saint Louis |
78 | John Berner | GK | SIUE |
79 | Sunny Jane | MF | Maryland |
80 | Eric Pothast | D | Marquette |
81 | Scott Lakin* | D | Northwestern |
82 | Kyle Renfro | GK | Virginia Tech |
83 | Harrison Petts | MF | Indiana |
84 | Franklin Castellanos | MF | Iona College |
85 | Kene Eze | F | Rutgers |
86 | Ross Tomaselli | MF | Wake Forest |
87 | Bruno Castro | MF/F | Creighton |
88 | Reed Williams | F | UCLA |
89 | Adam Bedell | D/F | Detroit |
90 | David Najem* | MF | Columbia |
91 | Daniel Lovitz | MF | Elon |
92 | Cristobal Soto | D | American |
93 | Fabian Otte | GK | NC State |
94 | Stephen Dooley | F | Loyola (MD) |
95 | Blair Jeralds | D | Denver |
96 | Nicholas Walker | D | Fairleigh Dickinson |
97 | Ross Friedman* | D | Harvard |
98 | Jake Feener | GK | Seattle |
99 | Hugh Roberts | D | George Mason |
100 | Michael Mercado | D | Connecticut |
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