New York Red Bulls select Syracuse GK Tomas Hut 21st in MLS SuperDraft
Tomas Hut racked up a career-high 76 saves in 2025, helping him land with the New York Red Bulls in the 2026 MLS SuperDraft Thursday. Aaron Hammer | Staff Photographer
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Syracuse goalie Tomas Hut was selected 21st overall by the New York Red Bulls in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft Thursday. In his senior campaign, Hut racked up a conference-leading 76 saves in 20 games.
After totaling a then-career-high 52 saves in his first season starting for the Orange in 2024 after transferring from Army, Hut took another step forward this year. Despite starting slow with just eight saves across his first six games, the Nutley, New Jersey, native racked up at least three in 12 of his next 14 games.
Hut delivered in wins over then-No. 22 North Carolina (eight saves), Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament First Round (six saves) and national runner-up NC State in the Quarterfinals (nine saves). His revival helped SU surge back from a 2-4-2 start to make the NCAA Tournament.
Hut’s selection follows a long lineage of SU players to be chosen in the MLS SuperDraft. With no alumni drafted last December, he’s the first Syracuse player selected since Jeorgio Kocevski and Olu Oyegunle went 21st and 33rd overall in 2023. Hut becomes SU’s 31st player ever drafted, following the likes of program legends like Miles Robinson, Tajon Buchanan and Kamal Miller.
Despite Hut’s departure and the loss of other stars like midfielder Carlos Zambrano and defenders Tim Brdaric and Ernest Mensah Jr., SU will look to continue its return to national prominence in 2026.
