David Estrada occupies an interesting place in Seattle Sounders history. His MLS career started off somewhat ignominiously when many observers felt he was a bit of a reach at No. 11 overall in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. The skeptics mostly seemed to be proven right when the UCLA product played fewer than 90 minutes his rookie year and only marginally more in his second.
Somewhat surprisingly, though, Estrada found himself as the starting forward going into 2012 while Eddie Johnson was still working himself back to full fitness after being acquired late in the preseason.