#351: A draft of USMNT prospects and late-bloomers for 2026
Matt Hartman, Marcus Chairez, Alex Calabrese and Belz pick XIs of players who were not on the World Cup roster and have fewer than 5 caps. Some surprises. Some surprising omissions. We call it the Future Draft. Hopefully it introduces you to some names to keep track of over the next three years.
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Here's the draft order...
Player selected | Pick # |
Slonina | 1 |
Balogun | 2 |
Paredes | 3 |
Trusty | 4 |
Tillman | 5 |
Booth | 6 |
Gutierrez | 7 |
Wynder | 8 |
Cardoso | 9 |
Brady | 10 |
Tomkinson | 11 |
Wiley* | 12 |
Tsakiris | 13 |
A. Morris | 14 |
Craig | 15 |
Gomez | 16 |
Aaronson | 17 |
Reynolds | 18 |
Vazquez | 19 |
Luna* | 20 |
Cuevas* | 21 |
Richardson | 22 |
Akinmboni | 23 |
Zendejas | 24 |
Medina | 25 |
Tolkin | 26 |
Okoh | 27 |
Soma | 28 |
Mendez | 29 |
Konrad | 30 |
Kalesho | 31 |
Hawkins | 32 |
Che | 33 |
Vargas | 34 |
Baker-Whiting | 35 |
Yapi | 36 |
Hall | 37 |
Kochen | 38 |
Cremaschi | 39 |
Alvarado | 40 |
Perez | 41 |
Burton | 42 |
McFarlane | 43 |
Odunze | 44 |
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