The 2018 MLS SuperDraft is this weekend, and players report to preseason training in Tucson, Arizona, almost immediately afterward. We’ve already profiled three different players who might be attractive picks for Sporting Kansas City, and my colleague Mike Kuhn just posted a great write-up on how the #13 and #18 picks have been used in past drafts, but what if Sporting KC doesn’t pick anyone and instead elects to trade its pick?
There is some recent precedent for this—in 2016, when the club went all-in on planning to draft goalkeeper Andrew Tarbell, only to see Tarbell get swiped off the board by the San Jose Earthquakes, the club jettisoned its #11 overall pick to D.