D.C. United season review: Jared Jeffrey

At the beginning of the season, no one expected that this would be Jared Jeffrey’s breakout year. He was buried on the depth chart, behind Marcelo Sarvas and Nick DeLeon as well as Markus Halsti and Julian Buescher too. After starting a number of games after being acquired by D.C. United in 2013, Jeffrey had been buried and relegated to the Richmond Kickers over the past two years; it seemed like this season was poised to be a repeat of that.

But D.C. United specifically re-signed him for this season promising a larger role, and that larger role started to show itself in April. That is when he got his first start and throughout the course of the summer played in almost over game, starting…