2019 MLS Draft Big Board: Version 1.0
December 24, 2018
The latest edition of the MLS draft is set for January 11, where stars of the 2018 college season hope to hear their name called.
For those following Major League Soccer closely, the draft is hardly the main source of talent acquisition. Whether it's homegrown signings, allocation money or countless other player movement mechanisms, there are plenty of other more important roster-building options out there. As an example, only 22 of the 81 selections in the 2018 draft saw minutes in MLS this past season. The Rookie of the Year, Corey Baird, was a college players signed to a Homegrown deal after a four-year career at Stanford.
That aside, TopDrawerSoccer will bring coverage of the top prospects available ahead of the draft. Below is a look at the first version of the Top 50 Big Board, with a seven-player Generation adidas class projected (Noted with an *).
| Rank | Player | School |
| 1 | M Siad Haji* | VCU |
| 2 | M Brad Dunwell | Wake Forest |
| 3 | F Tajon Buchanan* | Syracuse |
| 4 | M Sergio Rivas | Seattle |
| 5 | M Frankie Amaya* | UCLA |
| 6 | D Callum Montgomery | Charlotte |
| 7 | F Mohammed Kamara* | UCLA |
| 8 | F Griffin Dorsey* | Indiana |
| 9 | F JJ Williams* | Kentucky |
| 10 | M/F Camden Riley | Pacific |
| 11 | D/M Abdi Mohamed | Akron |
| 12 | F Andre Shinyashiki | Denver |
| 13 | F Santiago Patino | Florida International |
| 14 | M Amar Sejdic | Maryland |
| 15 | D Akeem Ward | Creighton |
| 16 | GK Dayne St. Clair* | Maryland |
| 17 | M/F Tucker Bone | Air Force |
| 18 | D Logan Gdula | Wake Forest |
| 19 | D Kamal Miller | Syracuse |
| 20 | D Marcello Borges | Michigan |
| 21 | M Andrew Samuels | Maryland |
| 22 | D Wouter Verstraaten | Pacific |
| 23 | D Jacob Hauser-Ramsey | Connecticut |
| 24 | M/F Amir Bashti | Stanford |
| 25 | M Geoffrey Dee | Louisville |
| 26 | M Joey Piatczyc | West Virginia |
| 27 | M Tommy McCabe | Notre Dame |
| 28 | F Abdou Mbacke Thiam | Connecticut |
| 29 | M Joel Rydstrand | Creighton |
| 30 | D Rece Buckmaster | Indiana |
| 31 | GK Jimmy Hague | Michigan State |
| 32 | M Anderson Asiedu | UCLA |
| 33 | GK Rashid Nuhu | Fordham |
| 34 | D Quentin Pearson | Washington |
| 35 | M Jeremiah Gutjahr | Indiana |
| 36 | F Sebastian Elney | Maryland |
| 37 | M Emil Cuello | SMU |
| 38 | D Chase Gasper | Maryland |
| 39 | D Alex Comsia | North Carolina |
| 40 | M Janos Loebe | Fordham |
| 41 | F Ryan Sierakowski | Michigan State |
| 42 | M Francesco Moore | Indiana |
| 43 | D Prosper Figbe | Virginia |
| 44 | M Jakov Basic | Massachusetts-Lowell |
| 45 | D Dylan Greenberg | Connecticut |
| 46 | D Roy Boateng | UC Davis |
| 47 | F DeJuan Jones | Michigan State |
| 48 | F Shinya Kadono | California |
| 49 | M Javi Perez | Pittsburgh |
| 50 | F Don Tchilao | Oregon State |
The MLS Draft Big Board was constructed in consultation with The Soccer Syndicate, North America's only independent soccer scouting network.
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