When budgets get tight people get inventive. It’s how Welsh rarebit (toast with cheese sauce) became an entrée and how chicory became a coffee replacement. In a salary cap league operating through the pandemic, the Seattle Sounders are about to have to get creative — especially on the right side of the organization depth chart.
Across Sounders-Defiance-Academy there is only one player whose best position is right back — recent convert Alex Roldan. Cristian Roldan could play there, but he’s more valuable as a starter at DM or right mid. Rumored signing Kelyn Rowe has yet to start at fullback on the right, but maybe?