With its first round pick in the 2020 MLS SuperDraft, Orlando City SC decided to select Daryl Dike, a forward who played his college soccer at the University of Virginia. By all accounts this was a rather surprising pick for the club — not because Dike is a forward, as its safe to say it was expected that Orlando would try to take a forward early in the draft given the team’s offensive struggles last year.
Rather, its surprising because plenty of people assumed that Dike would already be off the board by the time Orlando’s turn came with the fifth overall pick.