College stars will once again provide the bulk of the rosters for this year’s USL PDL season, which kicked off last weekend.

The 72-team race for a championship culminates in August, and a number of Division I standouts are slated to suit up for PDL franchises over the next few months.

Keep an eye on these 15 DI players this season.

College players to watch in the PDL

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M Cameron Lindley, Wilmington Hammerheads

The TopDrawerSoccer.com Freshman of the Year heads east to the NC coast for the summer. The box-to-box midfielder from North Carolina is going to provide a huge impact for the Hammerheads, which dropped from the USL to PDL for this year. Lindley could be one of the best players in the PDL in 2017.

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