Superdraft Results

It didn't come as expected, but the Rapids got their man today.  We said yesterday that it appeared Colorado was zeroing in on North Carolina RB/DM Jeremy Kelly, apparently Montreal knew that too.  After an on-again off-again trade with Minnesota for the 9th pick Montreal kept it and selected Kelly, two picks in front of the Rapids.  Padraig Smith and his team then decided there wasn't anyone else of interest at #11 and traded the pick to Gary Smith and company in Nashville for $75K of GAM.

But wait, maybe (well, probably) they knew something we didn't.  They the immediately turned around and traded $75K of GAM to Montreal...for Jeremy Kelly.  Somehow the Rapids essentially traded up from #11 to #9 at no cost to them.  Well done by the Front Office on that one.

With the 11th pick in the 2nd round the Rapids took defender Robin Afamefuma out of Virginia.

Both Kelly and Afamefuma were born in Europe (Czech Republic and Germany respectively) but Kelly moved to the States when he was 10 and is an American citizen.  I believe Afamefuma would require an international slot, which me's he's got a hill to climb to make the team.  Right now I project him to sign with the Switchbacks, not the Rapids.