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Here's a rumor for you to digest this morning. Ives Galarcep is reporting that sources are telling him the Portland Timbers will be sending forward Danny Mwanga to the Colorado Rapids in exchange for a 1st round 2015 SuperDraft pick. Here is the exact tweet:

Sources tell me Rapids trading a 2015 1st-rd pick to Portland for Mwanga.

Well they said they were going to try to get back into the draft and here we are. On the day of the MLS SuperDraft, the Portland Timbers sent forward Mike Fucito down to the San Jose Earthquakes in exchange for their second round draft pick, #34 overall.

Additionally, while the Timbers acquired Chivas USA's #2 allocation spot in exchange for either the Timbers' second round draft pick or international roster spot, Chivas USA opted for the international roster spot, thus allowing the Timbers to keep this second round pick.

The New England Revolution bolstered its roster depth on Wednesday by signingmidfielderDonnie Smith and goalkeeper Luis Soffner.

Smith (21st overall) and Soffner (36th overall)were both selected in the second round of the 2013 SuperDraft, and were in camp with the club for the duration of the preseason.

Per a team press release, the New England Revolution have announced the additions of 2013 SuperDraft picks Donnie Smith and Luis Soffner to their now 28-man roster for the upcoming season. Smith, a midfielder from UNC-Charlotte, and Soffner, a goalkeeper from Indiana University, have both been with New England for the entirety of pre-season including both trips to Arizona.

With the first round in the books, the New England Revolution are ready to feast upon the remaining second-round talent. With three picks in the round, they have a chance to cast a wide net and hopefully pull in at least one meaningful contributor in the round.

With their first pick in the second round, pick 21, the Revs took Donnie Smith, a midfielder/forward out of UNC-Charlotte.

Having the first pick in most American professional sports drafts is certainly better than having the fourth. On the one hand, it usually means you had a bad season; on the other hand, it could mean you engineered a great trade to take that season's top incoming talent. The New England Revolution appear to have just done the latter, trading the number four pick and some allocation money to Toronto in exchange for the number one selection in Thursday's SuperDraft.

The Houston Dynamo announced the trade of Jamaican midfielder Je-Vaughn Watson to FC Dallas for a second round 2015 MLS SuperDraft pick. With the trade, the Dynamo seemed to clear the way to move Hearts midfielder Andrew Driver to the club since Watson's move opens an international roster spot.

Earlier today, the Dynamo confirmed interest in Driver and could be set to make the move official in the coming days.

Anthony Arena (3) appeared in 79 games over his four-year career at Wake Forest. (Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

Building depth for preseason camp and perhaps eventually for the reserve league roster, the Dynamo made three picks Tuesday in the 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft.

The Dynamo took Wake Forest defender Anthony Arena with the 18th pick in the first round, which actually is the equivalent of the third round in this year's draft considering the SuperDraft last week lasted only two rounds.

Patrick Mullins will still be a high draft pick in 2014. (Photo via University of Maryland Athletics/Greg Flume)

Yes, I know it is extremely early to be doing a list like this but it's Friday, I have a day off, and I say why not. Just after national signing day I thought it would be a good time to break out the college reports and see who was worth a look at for next year's MLS SuperDraft.

The re-grades are in. (Getty Images)

Yesterday, I started to look back at previous SuperDrafts and the grades that I handed out to the various clubs. Based on my post history, I began grading the clubs in 2010 even though I covered the 2008 and 2009 drafts in other forms on here.

Many of you responded well to the 2010 re-grades from yesterday.

I've been bad about this in the past and for some reason I didn't really think to even do this until this year. So here we go, another small project for the preseason to write up.

I've decided to go back through the last three SuperDrafts and re-grade each club. Today I am going to start with the 2010 SuperDraft.

The Supplemental Draft typically is even more hit or miss than the SuperDraft when it comes to acquired talent, making it difficult to judge success early into the preseason process, but the Philadelphia Union may have maximized their player returns from this year's edition.

Philadelphia had three picks in the first two rounds, five overall, and the team's focus was clear from the first pick onward.

After all the wheeling and dealing, who came away with the best draft? (Getty Images)

Well the 2013 MLS SuperDraft has come and passed. Yesterday was a wild day that saw many trades, surprises and some usual steals.

I wanted to kick off today with a look at how each team did in a team-by-team draft grade article.

Andrew Ferrell was the easy number one pick for New England. (USA Today)

I'll have to say this to open up this post, the 2013 MLS SuperDraft may have been one of the most entertaining drafts I've covered in recent years.

Trades left and right, surprises left and right and lots of talking points.

Up until a few hours ago, today promised to be a fairly uneventful one for the Portland Timbers. Luckily for you, and us, the Timbers decided that it would be better to have a pick somewhere within today's SuperDraft than none at all. As such, they acquired San Jose Earthquakes second round pick (#34 overall) in exchange for forward Mike Fucito.

The Irish need some love today. Dillon Powers.

The MLS Draft goes down today in Indianapolis. (Despite the billing, this is not a SuperDraft. You tell me Falcao is available today, I'll change my mind.)
But it's the player movement around this shapes the team a little bit more.

The last time the New England Revolution traded up in the first round of the SuperDraft, they did it to select Wake Forest midfielder Wells Thompson at the sixth spot back in 2007.

Yes, Wells Thompson. A skilled,all-around nice guy who seemed ready to take the torch from Steve Ralston. Well, at least that was the plan.

Final MLS mock draft time folks. Final mock draft. Tomorrow is the big day as the 19 MLS clubs will come to Indianapolis to pick up the next new talent that is coming into the league.

I decided against doing a mock draft during the MLS Combine. Something just didn't feel right doing one and then doing another a day or two later once the Combine concluded.

Joe Willis is a rather large gentleman. If you pay attention at all to his blonde facial hair, he also frequently looks like he's spent considerable time lost in the Rocky Mountains, which is borderline conceivable for the Colorado native and University of Denver product. He might actually be Bigfoot, now that I think about it.

As the 2013 MLS season approaches, we're running the proverbial rule over each player on D.C. United's roster.

Joe Willis is a rather large gentleman. If you pay attention at all to his blonde facial hair, he also frequently looks like he's spent considerable time lost in the Rocky Mountains, which is borderline conceivable for the Colorado native and University of Denver product.

I was hoping something like this would happen. With Chivas USA transparently trying to become nothing more or less than an all Mexican (or Mexican-American) MLS team, I really was hoping that Dave Kasper would reach into the Goats' back pocket and just fleece a little bit off the top. Today, that's just what happened, as D.

As though a transfer saga couldn't get any lengthier or weirder than the Carlos Valdes', the Philadelphia Union have managed to create one in the form of Freddy Adu's own transfer situation.

John Hackworth has done little to beat away questions about Adu's future with the Union, including today.

The Major League Soccer SuperDraft. The beginning of another MLS season.

As part of the Brotherly Game's coverage of the day's event, we will hold a live question and answer session with our readers throughout the day. Feel free to start leaving questions now.

We'll be answering anything, and everything, Philadelphia Union related.

RENTON - When media members were let into the fieldhouse at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center for Sounders FC training, we saw exactly what we expected to see. Andy Rose and David Estrada were among the top three in the first heat of the beep test, battling with Alex Caskey for aerobic-fitness superiority.

With the 30th overall pick in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft, the Chicago Fire selected Yazid Atouba Emane. Atouba is a player from Cameroon. On the face of things, this might appear to be like when the Chicago Fire selected Patrick Nyarko in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft. Atouba is quite different from Nyarko though.