TUKWILA, Wash. — When 2017 started, Brad Evans expected to be the starting right back. Brian Schmetzer and Garth Lagerwey expected it, too. Then came an injury. And another. And maybe one or two more. The Seattle Sounders went through the first half of the season starting six different players at right back. Evans has started just four of the 21 competitive games played so far, logging just a bit over 300 minutes.
The club saw a hole in their roster and filled it with Kelvin Leerdam. Now, as Evans is fit and back from red-card suspension and injury, he doesn’t know his role through the season.