Originally Posted by
Stouffville_RPB
That's simply not true. Multiple players come out of each draft that manage to be at minimum adequate depth MLS players. They all aren't at the top of the draft either (Graham Zusi and Geoff Cameron both in the 2nd round). Just because the local team can't draft for their life and doesn't know what to do once they have decent players doesn't mean the draft is irrelavent.
In 2007 Mo Edu, Brad Evans, Corey Ashe, Bakary Soumare, Michael Harrington, Chris Seitz, Robbie Findley, Wells Thompson, Omar Cummings, Ty Harden, Tally Hall, Nick Labrocca, Sinisa Ubiparipovic.
In 2008 Chance Myers, Brek Shea, Tony Beltran, Sean Franklin, Andy Iro, Patrick Nyarko, Roger Espinoza, Eric Brunner, Shea Salinas, Andrew Jacobson, Geoff Cameron, Steven Lenhart.
In 2009 Steve Zakuani, Sam Cronin, Omar Gonzalez, Rodney Wallace, Chris Pontius, Matt Besler, Michael Lahoud, Kevin Alston, Jeremy Hall, Stefan Frei, George John, AJ Delagarza, Graham Zusi, Milos Kocic,
In 2010 Amobi Okugo, Danny Mwanga, Tony Tchani, Ike Opara, Jack McInerney, Zach Loyd, Teal Bunbury, David Estrada, Corben Bone, Tim Ream, Justin Morrow, Ben Zemanski Sean Johnson.
In 2011 Darlington Ngabe, Perry Kitchen, Zac Mcmath, AJ Soares, Kofi Sarkodie, CJ Sapong, Corey Hertzog, Will Bruin, Jeb Brovsky, Chris Korb, Joao Plata.
In 2012 Luis Silva, Darren Mattocks, Sam Garza, Nick Deleon, Austin Berry, Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Matt Hedges, Tony Cascio.
All those players have proved at the very least to be capable of being solid depth players. Heck some teams do very well in the draft. Dallas has one of the leagues best defenses and they drafted Hedges, John and Loyd. KC drafted Zusi, Sapong, Bunbury, Besler.