The 2023 Major League Rugby Collegiate Draft was the 4th draft in MLR history and took place on 17th August 2023. It followed the same format as the 2022 iteration with 3 rounds of 13 picks each, with 39 picks in total.

The draft order was determined by the reverse of finishing order during the 2023 season, including placements during the Championship Series (determined by finishing position + regular season seeding if necessary), with the Miami Sharks picking 1st in each round, as the expansion side, followed by the Toronto Arrows as the bottom placed team during the regular season.

As with previous drafts, teams are free to trade draft picks like other trade assets, and any traded picks have been specified in the ‘Notes’ column. The below table shows the complete 2023 MLR Collegiate Draft Class, including their draft number, name, position, and school:

Round	Overall Pick #	Team	Player Name	Position	College	Notes
1	1		Rick Rose	Lock	St. Bonaventure
1	2		Max Schumacher	Fly-half	UC – Berkeley	Pick acquired via trade with Toronto
1	3		Marques Fuala’au	Flanker	Central Washington
1	4		Noah Brown	Center / Wing	Indiana
1	5		Matt Anticev	Fly-half	Dartmouth
1	6		Julian Roberts	Fly-half	Life
1	7		Cian Darling	Flanker	Lindenwood	Pick acquired via trade with Utah
1	8		Nicholas Lapponese	No. 8	Fairfield
1	9		Orrin Bizer	Flanker	Life
1	10		James Rivers	Lock	Arizona	Pick acquired via trade with DC
1	11		Gabriel Mahu’inga	Hooker	Brigham Young	Pick acquired via trade with Seattle
1	12		Tyren Al-Jiboori	Wing	Lindenwood
1	13		Gabe Casey	Center	Victoria	First player in MLR history to be drafted twice (2022 – 31st overall TOR)
2	14		Charlie Overton	Lock	Life
2	15		Louis Millet	Flanker	Bishop’s
2	16		Juan Pen	Prop	St. Bonaventure	Pick acquired via trade with Dallas
2	17		Daelan Denenberg	Wing	Santa Clara
2	18		Jackson Zabierek	Hooker	UC – Santa Clara
2	19		Josh Halladay	Lock	Trinity Western	Pick acquired via trade with NOLA
2	20		Michael Biagi	Flanker	Brigham Young
2	21		Albert O’Shannessey	Flanker	Central Washington
2	22		Abe Turpen	Flanker	Arizona	Pick acquired via trade with Houston
2	23		Junior Gafa	Center	Brown	Pick received via trade with DC
2	24		Scott Bowers	Hooker	Trinity Western
2	25		Michael Ramos	Flanker	San Diego
2	26		Will Chevalier	Scrumhalf	Indiana
3	27		Setu Vole	Prop	Lindenwood
3	28		Monty Weatherall	Fly-half	McGill
3	29		Connor Olvera	Wing	Brigham Young
3	30		Clayton Means	Center	Lindenwood
3	31		Oli Griffiths	Fullback	UCLA
3	32		Ronnie McElligott	Flanker	St. Mary’s	Pick acquired via trade with NOLA
3	33		Isaia Kruse	Wing	Fresno State
3	34		Gjergji Bacuku	Prop	Hofstra
3	35		Anton Viera	Flanker	Santa Clara
3	36		Noah Wright	Wing	Central Washington
3	37		Nathan Beil	Flanker	UCLA	Pick acquired via trade with Seattle
3	38		Joseph Hawthorne	Prop	St. Bonaventure
3	39		Nick Hartley	Scrumhalf	Missouri S&T

The 2024 MLR Collegiate Draft represented the first time in league history that the Dallas Jackals did not draft 1st overall. Instead, the Miami Sharks expansion team chose lock Rick Rose out of St. Bonaventure, the 2nd forward to be chosen 1st overall in as many years.

Between the 2024 draft and the start of the 2024 season, MLR underwent a huge amount of change. The Toronto Arrows and Rugby New York Ironworkers announced that they would not compete in the 2024 season (and so their draftees did not play), Rugby ATL relocated to Los Angeles as Rugby FC LA and their draftees moved with them, and the Anthem RC Development side was cobbled together weeks before start of the season, not participating in the 2024 draft but using many draftees from the 2024 class in their roster.

The below tables show how many picks each MLR team had during the 2024 draft, and which Colleges had the most draftees selected:

Team	Draft Picks
	5
	4
	4
	4
	4
	3
	3
	3
	3
	3
	2
	1
	0

College	Logo	Number of Draftees
Lindenwood		4
Brigham Young		3
Central Washington		3
Life		3
St. Bonaventure		3
Arizona		2
Indiana		2
Santa Clara		2
Trinity Western		2
UCLA		2
Bishop’s		1
Brown		1
Dartmouth		1
Fairfield		1
Fresno State		1
Hofstra		1
McGill		1
Missouri S&T		1
San Diego		1
St. Mary’s		1
UC – Berkeley		1
UC – Santa Cruz		1
Victoria		1