2018 MLS Draft Big Board: Version 3.0
January 18, 2018
The MLS Draft begins on Friday, January 19 at 11 a.m. in Philadelphia.
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Below is the final version of TopDrawerSoccer.com's Big Board, ranking 90 prospects hoping to have their name called in one of the four rounds.
| Rank | Name | School |
| 1 | M/F Ema Twumasi* | Wake Forest |
| 2 | M/F Francis Atuahene* | Michigan |
| 3 | D Tomas Hilliard-Arce | Stanford |
| 4 | M/F Christopher Mueller | Wisconsin |
| 5 | F Jon Bakero | Wake Forest |
| 6 | M Rafael Andrade Santos | VCU |
| 7 | D Joao Moutinho* | Akron |
| 8 | M Mo Adams* | Syracuse |
| 9 | D Tristan Blackmon | Pacific |
| 10 | F Mason Toye* | Indiana |
| 11 | F Daniel Musovski | UNLV |
| 12 | D Wyatt Omsberg | Dartmouth |
| 13 | M Christopher Lema | Georgetown |
| 14 | M/F Edward Opoku* | Virginia |
| 15 | F Mohamed Thiaw | Louisville |
| 16 | M/F Alan Winn | North Carolina |
| 17 | M Ken Krolicki | Michigan State |
| 18 | D Justin Fiddes | Washington |
| 19 | F Brian White | Duke |
| 20 | M/F Jon Gallagher | Notre Dame |
| 21 | F Gordon Wild* | Maryland |
| 22 | F Marcelo Acuna | Virginia Tech |
| 23 | M Jose Carrera-Garcia | California |
| 24 | D Carter Manley | Duke |
| 25 | M Drew Skundrich | Stanford |
| 26 | M Oliver Shannon | Clemson |
| 27 | D Tim Kubel | Louisville |
| 28 | M Manuel Cordeiro | Akron |
| 29 | D Lucas Stauffer | Creighton |
| 30 | M Alex Roldan | Seattle |
| 31 | F Arthur Bosua | Columbia |
| 32 | D Markus Fjortoft | Duke |
| 33 | F Sam Gainford | Akron |
| 34 | GK Ben Lundgaard | Virginia Tech |
| 35 | F Ricky Lopez-Espin | Creighton |
| 36 | D Cory Brown | Xavier |
| 37 | M Mark Segbers | Wisconsin |
| 38 | F Frantzdy Pierrot | Coastal Carolina |
| 39 | GK Eric Dick | Butler |
| 40 | F Niki Jackson | Grand Canyon |
| 41 | D Nate Shultz | Akron |
| 42 | M/F Diego Campos | Clemson |
| 43 | F Stuart Holthusen | Akron |
| 44 | M Xavier Gomez | Omaha |
| 45 | F Albert Ruiz | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 46 | GK Jefferson Caldwell | Virginia |
| 47 | M Harry Cooksley | St. John's |
| 48 | D Graham Smith | Denver |
| 49 | M/F Brandon Bye | Western Michigan |
| 50 | M/F Mauro Cichero | SMU |
| 51 | M Brian Iloski | UCLA |
| 52 | D Niko De Vera | Akron |
| 53 | M Luis Argudo | Wake Forest |
| 54 | D Andre Morrison | Hartford |
| 55 | M Pol Planellas | Pittsburgh |
| 56 | GK Paul Christensen | Portland |
| 57 | F Afonso Pinheiro | Albany |
| 58 | D Ben White | Gonzaga |
| 59 | F Jason Wright | Clemson |
| 60 | F Tommy Barlow | Wisconsin |
| 61 | GK Andrew Shepherd | Western Michigan |
| 62 | M Pablo Aguilar | Virginia |
| 63 | F Mac Steeves | Providence |
| 64 | D Josh Morton | California |
| 65 | M Pau Belana | Akron |
| 66 | F Jordan Jones | Oregon State |
| 67 | D/M Thomas Vancaeyezeele | Charleston |
| 68 | F Mamadou Guirassay | NJIT |
| 69 | M/D Paul Marie | FIU |
| 70 | D Alex Bumpus | Kentucky |
| 71 | F Matias Pyysalo | UCF |
| 72 | M Leon Schwarzer | San Francisco |
| 73 | M AJ Paterson | Wright State |
| 74 | F Will Bagrou | Campbell |
| 75 | GK Michael Nelson | SMU |
| 76 | M/F Luc Fatton | VCU |
| 77 | Christoffer Wallander Ianev | South Carolina |
| 78 | M Jared Stroud | Colgate |
| 79 | D Jimmy Fiscus | Michigan State |
| 80 | F Giovanni Godoy | UC Irvine |
| 81 | M Steven Echevarria | Wake Forest |
| 82 | D David Enstrom | St. John's |
| 83 | D Sheldon Sullivan | Virginia |
| 84 | F Jason Romero | Portland |
| 85 | M Erik Sa | Rutgers |
| 86 | F Aidan Apodaca | Cal Baptist |
| 87 | F Tyler Collishaw | Lindsey Wilson |
| 88 | F Jose Aguinaga | Rider |
| 89 | M/F Declan McCabe | Georgetown |
| 90 | GK Chris Hubbard | Notre Dame |
| 91 | D Wilfred Williams | Oakland |
| 92 | F Carlos Delgadillo | Santa Clara |
| 93 | M/F Paul Salcedo-Borrego | California |
| 94 | F Zach Knudson | Georgetown |
| 95 | M Christian Sady | Harvard |
| 96 | D Nicolas Samayoa | Florida Gulf Coast |
| 97 | D Rafael Garcia | St. Mary's (CA) |
| 98 | F Nate Kohl | Ohio State |
| 99 | M Paul Hoffmeister | Utah Valley |
| 100 | D Mauriq Hill | Pittsburgh |
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