NEW YORK – Portland Pilots Men's Soccer had seven players named to the eligible player draft pool for the 2026 MLS SuperDraft: Nikos Clark-Tosczak, Micaah Garnette, Miguel-Angel Hernandez, Joe Highfield, Anton Hjalmarsson, Wylie Trujillo and Alex Waggoner. The MLS SuperDraft takes place tomorrow, Dec. 18 at 11 a.m. Draft coverage can be found on MLSsoccer.com.
This is the highest number of Pilots in the player pool since Nick Carlin-Voigt took the reins in 2016. The Pilots have numerous homegrown players from MLS Academies as well, including David Ajagbe (Vancouver Whitecaps), Ayo Akintobi (Atlanta United), Julian Bretous (Atlanta United), Nicky Dunbar (LA Galaxy), Maddox Findlay (Houston Dynamo), Christian Mendoza (Portland Timbers), Angel Martinez (Seattle Sounders), Diego Rosas (Houston Dynamo) and Ethan Zamora (Real Salt Lake).