GRR: MLR Draft
Thursday, July 13 brings the Collegiate Rugby Shield back to Herriman, Utah as a pre-Major League Rugby draft event.
In fact, the Shield is touting the fact that it had more players than “any other MLR Redraft Event.” While technically true, there aren’t really a lot of these so being the biggest wouldn’t be hard.
An Opinion Column by Alex Goff—Last week was an interesting one in American college rugby, even when there were no games.
Major League Rugby held their draft, and following on that there was the RugbyTown 7s, where a decent number of college rugby players showed their stuff.
Thirty-nine college players from universities in the USA and Canada were officially drafted into Major League Rugby Thursday night.
Over 150 rugby players have applied for the Major League Rugby draft, with 39 to be drafted and several more signed as undrafted free agents.
They will become, for a while at least, professional rugby players.
Over 170 student-athletes are going through the Major League Draft process this week—most will find out what happens on Thursday, but in fact the picks have already been made.