Sounder at Heart · Dec 20, 2022
There’s this myth that the MLS draft isn’t that important
World Cup player Tajon Buchanon was picked 9th in 2019Picking at 9 in the 2023 MLS Superdraft the Seattle Sounders don’t need to look for a star, or even a starter. The Ideal XI is fairly well known, even the top of the rotation guys are fairly obvious with the way the Depth Chart is right now.
The draft has a reputation for not being very useful, which is probably because the Sounders haven’t had a single-digit pick in many years and because for a time the MLS Academies hurt college. But from 2019-2022 there were several picks that show a resurgent strength in the draft.