Sporting Kansas City goes into this month’s SuperDraft with two picks in hand: the #13 overall pick, which is their natural selection, and the #18 pick, which the club obtained in the previous offseason’s trade of Lawrence Olum to the Portland Timbers for their natural first-round pick plus $50,000 in general allocation money.
Having those two picks is helpful for a club whose core looks increasingly long in the tooth with each passing campaign, but this year’s draft is relatively thin at certain positions of need for the club, especially center back.