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Sizing up the U.S. forward pool

Jozy Altidore and Bobby Wood headline a stable of American forwards that may be deeper than ever.

To fully appreciate just how good things are for the current talent pool at forward for the U.S. national team, one doesn't need to go too far back to a time when things looked extremely bleek.

Just two years ago, the state of the U.S. national team's forward options could be best described as abysmal. Jozy Altidore and Aron Johannsson both had injuries that kept them from showing their best at the 2014 World Cup, and those issues lingered on into the latter part of that year.