Every year at the MLS Player Combine, groups of college athletes from around the country are bunched together in teams and tasked with impressing coaches and general managers from around the league.
The same was true for Real Salt Lake Technical Director Dane Murphy in 2008 when he finished his collegiate career at the University of Virginia. He went through the paces at the combine in hopes of hearing his name called at the SuperDraft, and while that didn’t happen, he did get signed by D.C. United, where he played two seasons before venturing abroad.
The experience at the combine gave Murphy a different perspective as he rated players this week in preparation for the 2018 MLS SuperDraft on Friday in Philadelphia.