Real Salt Lake traded its No. 10 overall pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft to the Chicago Fire for $85,000 in general allocation money Friday in Philadelphia.
“We feel that we got our No. 1 and No. 2 pick already,” RSL coach Mike Petke told MLSsoccer.com. “Aaron Herrera, who we got from our homegrown [pool] is a top-three pick in this draft this year. Corey Baird is a first-round draft pick. So we were looking for one or two players that if they fell through to our position, we would have taken, and they were drafted already.”
The team signed two homegrown players, Herrera and Baird, out of college this winter, bypassing the draft.