Following moves to beef up their center back position with off-season signings, the Rapids have traded Jared Watts to the Houston Dynamo in an exchange for allocation money.
Watts was drafted by the Rapids out of Wake Forest in 2014 and started 61 games over the next four seasons including 18 starts last season. With plans to implement a three-man back line under new coach Anthony Hudson this season, the team signed three new center backs in Tommy Smith, Deklan Wynne and Danny Wilson. Two players who have been regulars at the position in years past, Kortne Ford and Axel Sjoberg, remain on the roster.