#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. ---- Scuffed is an ad-free podcast. Support that and get exclusive episodes (more than 50 this year), plus access to the Discord including live call-in shows and round-the-clock access to other reasonable USMNT and USWNT fans online, by signing up for our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scuffed ---- 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 Skip the ads! Subscribe to Scuffed on Patreon and get all episodes ad-free, plus any bonus episodes. Patrons at $5 a month or more also get access to Clip Notes, a video of key moments on the field we discuss on the show, plus all patrons get access to our private Discord server, live call-in shows, and the full catalog of historic recaps we've made: https://www.patreon.com/scuffed Also, check out Boots on the Ground, our USWNT-focused spinoff podcast headed up by Tara and Vince. They are cooking over there, you can listen here: https://boots-on-the-ground.simplecast.com And check out our MERCH, baby. We have better stuff than you might think: https://www.scuffedhq.com/store Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.