Ever since Danny Leyva became the youngest player ever to sign a first-team contract with the Seattle Sounders, a certain amount of expectation has followed him. Still just 19 and now playing his sixth professional season, Leyva’s career seems to be approaching a crossroads, though.
On the one hand, he is still considered a reasonably high-level prospect. Transfermarkt values him at about $2.5 million and he’s routinely getting called into United States U20 training camps.
On the other hand, however, his place in the Sounders' first-team is not entirely clear. Not only is he not an obvious starter, but fellow Sounders Academy products Josh Atencio and Obed Vargas are ahead of him on the depth chart.