The Major League Rugby Collegiate Draft was introduced in 2020 to provide a pathway for the best college/university-level rugby players from across the USA (and later Canada) to professional rugby. Each MLR club receives 1 pick per round based on reverse order of where they finished during the previous season (bottom team would pick first in each round, Champions would pick last in each round, etc.) with rare exceptions that are explained on the specific pages for each draft. Any expansion clubs that are in place prior to the Draft would automatically select 1st in each round.

The MLR Draft functions similar to other drafts in North American Sports. MLR teams are free to trade draft picks as they would any other assets (players, salary cap considerations, international slots, etc.) which usually results in a flurry of Trade Wire activity as the draft closes in.

The below table shows a breakdown of each MLR club’s draft history, including how many drafts each team has participated in, which rounds did each team pick in and how many times, whether the team has ever had a 1st overall pick, etc. This table is sorted alphabetically and numbers in red represent inactive MLR teams.

MLR Collegiate Draft – Breakdown

Team	Number of Drafts with Picks	1st Overall Picks	1st Round Picks	2nd Round Picks	3rd Round Picks	Total Draft Picks	Most Capped Draftee	Highest Scoring Draftee
	2	2	5	1	3	9
	2	0	2	2	1	5
	1	0	2	1	1	4
	3	0	3	4	3	10	Noah Brown	Noah Brown
	0	0	0	0	0	0
	5	3	8	8	5	21	Sam Golla
	5	0	4	3	4	11	Emmanuel Albert
	2	0	1	3	1	5	Watson Filikitonga
	2	1	2	1	2	5	Rick Rose
	6	0	5	8	5	18
	5	0	10	2	2	14
	6	0	4	8	4	16
	4	0	5	4	5	14
	1	0	0	0	3	3
	3	0	3	1	3	7
	5	0	5	5	4	14
	6	0	5	8	4	17		Tavite Lopeti
	3	0	2	2	4	8	Owain Ruttan
	6	0	6	9	7	22

Draft Year	1st overall Pick	Drafting Team	Rookie of the Year	Team
2020	Connor Mooneyham		Andrew Guerra
2021	Eric Naposki		Tavite Lopeti
2022	Sam Golla		Sam Golla
2023	Rick Rose		Junior Gafa
2024	Erich Storti		Peyton Wall
2025	Will Sherman		TBD	TBD

MLR Collegiate Draftee Schools – All Time

The below table shows a list of every US & Canadian college that has had at least one player drafted by an MLR team across all iterations of the Major League Rugby Collegiate Draft, sorted from most to fewest and broken down by year.

#	College Name	Logo	1st Overalls	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Total MLR Draftees
1	Lindenwood		0	2	6	5	4	3	2	22
2	Life		1	2	3	0	3	3	4	15
3	St. Mary’s		1	2	1	1	1	6	1	12
4	Central Washington		0	2	0	2	3	1	3	11
5	UC – Berkeley		1	0	0	3	1	2	2	8
6	Kutztown		0	1	3	3	0	0	0	7
7	Penn State		0	0	4	0	0	2	1	7
8	Victoria		0	0	2	3	1	0	1	7
9	Arizona		0	1	0	1	2	1	1	6
10	UCLA		2	0	1	1	2	0	2	6
11	Arkansas State		0	1	2	1	0	1	0	5
12	Brigham Young		0	0	0	0	3	2	0	5
13	American International		0	2	1	0	0	0	1	4
14	Dartmouth		0	1	0	1	1	0	1	4
15	Queens – Charlotte		0	0	1	2	0	1	0	4
16	St. Bonaventure		1	0	0	1	3	0	0	4
17	British Columbia		0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3
18	Indiana		0	0	0	0	2	1	0	3
19	Notre Dame College		0	1	1	0	0	1	0	3
20	Ottawa		0	0	1	0	0	2	0	3
21	Santa Clara		0	0	0	0	2	1	0	3
22	Thomas More		0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3
23	Trinity Western		0	0	0	1	2	0	0	3
24	Bishop’s		0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
25	Iona		0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
26	Iowa Central		0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
27	Mary Washington		0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
28	Memphis		0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
29	Ohio State		0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
30	San Diego		0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
31	Walsh		0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
32	West Point		0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2
33	Western Michigan		0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
34	Adrian College		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
35	Alabama		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
36	Brock		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
37	Brown		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
38	Cal Poly		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
39	Cal State – Long Beach		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
40	Davenport		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
41	Fairfield		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
42	Fresno State		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
43	Grand Canyon		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
44	Guelph		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
45	Hofstra		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
46	Iowa State		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
47	Louisville		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
48	Loyola Maryland		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
49	Marian		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
50	McGill		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
51	Missouri S&T		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
52	Mount St. Mary’s		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
53	Northern Colorado		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
54	Notre Dame		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
55	Queen’s		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
56	Rensselaer Poly		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
57	Sam Houston State		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
58	South Florida		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
59	Tennessee		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
60	Texas A&M		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
61	Trent		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
62	UC – Santa Barbara		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
63	UC – Santa Cruz		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
64	UMass Lowell		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
65	Utah		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
66	Vermont		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
67	Wheeling		0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
68	Wisconsin-Whitewater		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1