For the past decade, the MLS SuperDraft has supplied Sporting Kansas City with the core of its roster. The club has utilized college drafts to add Matt Besler, Graham Zusi, Roger Espinoza and Dom Dwyer, who emerged as the four highest-paid players on the team.
A change of course Thursday.
Sporting KC is set to leave the 2016 SuperDraft without a player after it traded the No. 11 overall pick — its lone selection in the first two rounds — to D.C. United for targeted allocation money.
Targeted allocation money (TAM) may be used to sign new players or to extend the contracts of current players, but it can only be used on players who earn more than the maximum salary cap charge, which was $436,250 in 2015.