The 2021 PLL College Draft Pool
How I Chose The 2021 College Draft Pool
To put together my very early mock 2021 PLL College Draft, I needed to compile a list of the top players available. As many have noted there is a plethora of talent, particularly at attack, in the 2021 draft. This was evident even before I took into account the players who haven’t exhausted their NCAA eligibility but will have graduated and could declare for the draft. I believe that the vast majority of the players that fall into this category, extremely talented prospects with two years of eligibility left, will choose to remain at their college or transfer as a graduate student. The value of the scholarship they would receive to attend graduate school likely exceeds the salary of a first year PLL player. They also would be entering into a draft where there is an excess of talent for just 28 picks. If the PLL chooses to expand this offseason it might alleviate some of these concerns, but as the rest of this article will show there is simply just too much talent for the league to take in at its current size. I think that it’s inevitable that the PLL will reach nine teams by the 2022 season. Going by that assumption, the 2022 draft should have 36 picks if they continue with 4 rounds.
The Draft Pool
43 Players Total
Goalie (2):
Drake Porter — Syracuse
Colby Kneese — Penn State
Defense (5):
JT Giles-Harris — Duke
Mitch Wykoff — Syracuse (Gettysburg ‘20)
Nick Cardile — Penn State
Kyle Thornton — Notre Dame (Penn ‘20)
Jack Kielty — Notre Dame
LSM (3):
Jared Conners — Virginia
Ryan McNulty — Loyola
Sean Menges — Richmond
SSDM (2):
Ryan Terefenko — Ohio State
Danny Logan — Denver
Face-Off (5):
TD Ierlan — Yale
Gerard Arceri — Penn State
Kyle Gallagher — Notre Dame (Penn ‘20)
Charlie Leonard — Notre Dame
Dan O’Connell — Duke (Holy Cross ‘20)
Two Way Midfield (2):
Dox Aitken — Virginia
Jeff Trainor — UMass
Offensive Midfield (7):
Jamie Trimboli — Syracuse
Connor Kirst — Rutgers (Villanova ‘20)
Tanner Cook — North Carolina
Justin Anderson — North Carolina
Austin Popovich — Robert Morris
Connor McCarthy — North Carolina (Princeton ‘20)
Lucas Cotler — Denver (Yale ‘20)
Attack/Midfield (2):
Griffin Brown — Maryland (Colgate ‘20)
Tre Leclaire — Ohio State
Attack (15):
Michael Sowers — Duke (Princeton ‘20)
Jeff Teat — Cornell
Ethan Walker — Denver
Charlie Bertrand — Virginia (Merrimack ‘20)
Mac O’Keefe — Penn State
Nicky Petkevich — Georgetown (Colgate ‘20)
Eric Holden — Maryland (Colgate ‘20)
Jake Carraway — Georgetown
Will Yorke — Notre Dame (Bucknell ‘20)
Jared Bernhardt — Ferris State Football (Maryland ‘20)
Cole Williams — Hopkins
Jackson Morrill — Denver (Yale ‘20)
Larson Sundown — RIT (Limestone ‘20)
Phil Robertson — Duke (Princeton ‘20)
Reid Bowering — Drexel
Notable Players Who Have Two Years of Eligibility Remaining:
Chris Gray — North Carolina
Jack Hannah — Denver
Brendan Curry — Syracuse
Logan Wisnauskas — Maryland
Owen McElroy — Georgetown
George Baughan — Princeton**
Gibson Smith — Georgetown
Matt Moore — Virginia
Chris Fake — Yale**
Bailey Savio — Loyola
Koby Smith — Towson
Brett Kennedy — Syracuse
Josh Kirson — John’s Hopkins (Ohio State ‘20)
Toby Burgdorf — Providence
Peter Dearth — Syracuse
Erik Peters — Princeton
**Has another year of eligibility but would need to transfer
The obvious exception to both of these lists is Tehoka Nanticoke a rising senior at Albany. I’m not sure if Tehoka declares for the PLL and NLL drafts vs coming back to Albany for a year, but my gut says he’s done with college after the 2021 season. I chose not to include him in my mock 2021 PLL College Draft because I didn’t include anyone else with eligibility remaining for simplicity’s sake. If he does go in the draft I imagine Chaos try to grab him as their second priority behind TD Ierlan.
