Real Salt Lake holds the fifth pick in Thursday’s 2016 MLS SuperDraft, a position the club hasn’t been in since selecting Tony Beltran with the third overall pick in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft. That draft position provides several opportunities for RSL General Manager Craig Waibel as he and the RSL Technical Staff have spent the year evaluating players from around the country who on Thursday will learn their first professional stops.
Those opportunities exist both in adding a good young prospect or swapping the pick out to build through more veteran players.
“When you have the fifth pick, you either believe you’re getting someone that you want and can play a role in your club for quite some time, or you should sell it and get allocation money to go out and pursue a player of interest that exists elsewhere,” Waibel said.