2014 MLS Draft Big Board: Nov. 27 edition
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 |
photo credit: Maryland Athletics
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