2014 MLS Draft Big Board: Nov. 27 edition

by ESNN

November 27, 2013

The 2014 MLS SuperDraft is less than two months away, as players still alive in the NCAA tournament make a final impression on scouts and coaching staffs.

It's also a chance to survey the top prospects available for the upcoming draft. Below is the first 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.

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.

Also note that no underclassmen are included. Generation adidas rankings will come out later this week in a separate article. When players officially sign with the league, they will be included in future updates.

Rank	Name	College	Position
1	Patrick Mullins	Maryland	F
2	Steve Neumann	Georgetown	F
3	Steve Birnbaum	California	D
4	Harrison Shipp*	Notre Dame	MF/F
5	Kyle Venter	New Mexico	D
6	Pedro Ribeiro	Coastal Carolina	MF
7	Jared Watts	Wake Forest	MF/D
8	Ben Sweat	South Florida	D
9	JJ Koval	Stanford	MF
10	Mackenzie Pridham	Cal Poly	F
11	Sebastien Ibeagha*	Duke	D
12	Victor Chavez	UCLA	F
13	Kevin Cope	Michigan State	D
14	Enrique Cardenas	UC Irvine	MF/F
15	Pete Caringi	UMBC	F
16	Carlos Benavides	Cal State Northridge	MF
17	Joey Dillon	Georgetown	MF
18	Nick Hagglund	Xavier	D
19	Luca Gimenez	Wake Forest	MF/F
20	Reinaldo Brenes	Akron	F
21	Aodhan Quinn	Akron	F
22	Joe Sofia	UCLA	D
23	Grant Van De Casteele	Notre Dame	D
24	Marco Franco	UC Irvine	D
25	Nikita Kotlov	Indiana	MF
26	Chris Ritter*	Northwestern	D
27	Jimmy Ockford	Louisville	D
28	Bryan Ciesiulka*	Marquette	MF
29	Tomislav Zadro	Wisconsin	MF
30	Mark Sherrod	Memphis	F
31	Romena Bowie	VCU	MF
32	Taylor Peay*	Washington	D
33	Alex Martinez	NC State	MF/F
34	Alex Sweetin*	Saint Louis	MF
35	Patrick Slogic*	Cornell	D
36	Thomas McNamara	Clemson	MF
37	Michael Calderon	New Mexico	MF
38	Robbie Derschang	Akron	MF/D
39	Fifi Baiden	UC Santa Barbara	MF
40	Mamadou Doudou Diouf	Connecticut	F
41	Peter Schmetz	UC Santa Barbara	D
42	Jason Plumhoff	La Salle	MF
43	Tyler Gibson	Charlotte	MF
44	Matt Walker*	Xavier	MF/F
45	Chris Duvall	Wake Forest	D
46	Michael Kafari	New Mexico	MF
47	Achille Campion	UC Santa Barbara	F
48	Zach Bolden*	Denver	F
49	Martin Ontiveros	Furman	MF
50	Miguel Gonzalez	Seattle	F
51	Luke Mishu	Notre Dame	D
52	Tolani Ibikunle	Wake Forest	D
53	A.J. Corrado	Indiana	MF
54	Martin Seiler	Penn State	D
55	Eric Stevenson*	Akron	MF
56	Sunny Jane	Maryland	MF
57	Tim Hopkinson	Old Dominion	F
58	Michael Harris	Washington	D
59	Wojciech Wojcik*	Bradley	D
60	Blake Wise	San Diego State	MF
61	John McCarthy	La Salle	GK
62	Daniel Welsh	UC Santa Barbara	D
63	Kristopher Tyrpak	Houston Baptist	F
64	Zach Barnes	Creighton	MF
65	Rafael Diaz	St. John's	GK
66	David Geno	East Tennessee State	MF
67	Fabio Pereira	Michigan	MF
68	Andrew O'Malley	Notre Dame	D
69	Josh Phillips	Gonzaga	D
70	Justin Portillo	Coastal Carolina	MF
71	Liam Collins	Memphis	MF
72	Ryan Caballero	Gonzaga	GK
73	Kene Eze	Rutgers	F
74	Nazmi Albadawi	NC State	MF
75	Brian Billings	Bradley	GK
76	Jacob Bushue	Indiana	D/MF
77	John Berner	SIUE	GK
78	George Fochive	Connecticut	MF
79	Eric Pothast	Marquette	D
80	Scott Lakin*	Northwestern	D
81	Harrison Petts	Indiana	MF
82	Leon Brown	Notre Dame	F
83	Franklin Castellanos	Iona College	MF
84	Omar Mata	Tulsa	MF
85	Kyle Renfro	Virginia Tech	GK
86	Ross Tomaselli	Wake Forest	MF
87	Bruno Castro	Creighton	MF/F
88	Reed Williams	UCLA	F
89	Adam Bedell	Detroit	D/F
90	David Najem*	Columbia	MF
91	Jake Feener	Seattle	GK
92	Stephen Dooley	Loyola (MD)	F
93	Blair Jeralds	Denver	D
94	Nicholas Walker	Fairleigh Dickinson	D
95	Ross Friedman*	Harvard	D
96	Cristobal Soto	American	D
97	Hugh Roberts	George Mason	D
98	Michael Mercado	Connecticut	D
99	Marius Hammersmark	Gardner-Webb	D
100	Jordan Ongaro	San Diego State	F