2017 didn’t go well for just about any D.C. United player, and perhaps no one summed that up more than Patrick Mullins. After scoring 8 goals and 2 assists in the final 14 games of 2016, expectations were extremely high. I myself was thinking Mullins could produce a 15 goals/5 assist kind of season, in a world where United maintained the free-scoring form they had from August onward last year.
Instead, we entered the third week of September with Mullins sitting on 0 (zero) goals, while United was (at the time) dead last in goals scored as a team.