There's no questions Columbus needs more out of its defense this season. These are the players tasked with accomplishing that.
Despite all the positives from 2015 for Columbus Crew SC, it became apparent as the season wore on that there were some issues with the team's defense, often prone to making a major gaffe and too often not on the same page. In many ways, that's a side effect of Gregg Berhalter's aggressive attacking system that often leaves the fullbacks high up the field and the center backs on an island.
But we know that Berhalter's system will remain the same, and so we look to the personnel at hand and hope that the players can find a way to grow more comfortable with each other and with their roles in the system to tighten up the defensive structure enough to vault the club to a higher level of overall play.