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View from Couch: Top 5 Homegrown Players to open the 2017 MLS season

Another week, another Homegrown Player making MLS noise. This time, it was New York Red Bulls midfielder Tyler Adams, who earned his first start of the season Saturday against Real Salt Lake and deftly controlled the action for nearly all of a scoreless draw.

Here's your Tyler Adams highlight video from today. Get the #HypeTrain going. #NYvRSL pic.twitter.com/fuA2Hu9Gqm

— Ben Baer (@BenBaer89) March 25, 2017

The performance for Adams continues a strong start to the calendar year, which he opened by aiding the United States Under-20 national team in a successful effort to claim its first CONCACAF Championship, though he mostly played in more of a box-to-box role than he currently projects to on the club side, where the Red Bulls (for now?