It was broadcast for the public in the wee hours of April 24 for the East Coast, but the PLL draft was held Monday. In case you weren’t able to stay up, here is a breakdown of the four-round, snake-style selection of the inaugural PLL Collegiate Draft. Each of the six teams took their shot at improving their already stacked squads and — as with most drafts — some of them fared better than others. This is your complete PLL Draft recap.

Round One

1. Archers: Pat Spencer, A, Loyola

You have to pick the best player available with the first pick. It’s a law. When you don’t do that, you get burned; circumstance is for jury trials. You need to take the big guy with the first selection and coach Chris Bates did just that. Spencer is absolutely the kind of player that you can wait a year for if he chooses to forego this summer to focus on a year of college basketball. In the immortal words of Sage the Gemini:

My mama wanted me to be a baller but I balled a different way

I look at my Rollie, say it's time to get this cake

I throw all this money, but it never fade away

Uh, hoop dreams

The second pick may not have the same gravitas as the first, but don’t underestimate its importance — after all, there is only one guy you can’t have now. It’s just as easy to mess up the second pick as it is the first (unless you’re the 76ers). With Conrad you get a guy who does all the dirty stuff — scrappy wing play, getting back in transition, surging through a scrum with a key groundball — and a little bit of everything else as well. However, this is a very high selection for that kind of player.

The Chrome is (are?) heavy on shooters and downhill dodgers. But, if there were a team need in the midfield, it would be a tough 6-on-6 shortstick d-middie. The third pick is very early to make need-based selections, but Goodrich went third in the MLL Draft, too, so clearly professional coaches value his skillset.

4. Whipsnakes: Alex Woodall, FO, Towson

The general rule is "don't take a face-off man in the first round." However, like all things in this world, rules are more fun when you break them. That statement is actually half as aggressive as this pick. But, when you look at the Whipsnakes roster, the one glaring need is for another draw man. They only have Joe Nardella on the roster, so Woodall might have a better shot at a Gillette debut than most picks in this draft.

5. Redwoods: Clarke Petterson, A, Cornell

With two capable off-ball finishers in both Kylor Bellistri and Mike Bocklet already vying for playing time, this pick is a bit of a head-scratcher. Petterson could fill the need of a big shooter over the top in the midfield and on man-up though, as the Redwoods are currently home to the oldest roster in the league. (Sorry guys, truth is truth).

6. Chaos: Johnny Surdick, D, Army

The final pick in the first round in a snake style draft is a tricky spot. If you have ever played fantasy football, this is the moment when you can ruin the league by taking two quarterbacks or just making your team better by taking the two best guys available. Surdick is most certainly one half of the former. Despite being on the business end of a Pat Spencer matchup last weekend, if you watch the tape, Surdick did more than send Spencer’s stick for a helicopter ride; he was able to body up Spencer one-on-one. Great defenders don’t always shut down their opposition; sometimes their job is just to make things difficult.

Round Two

7. Chaos: Jack Rowlett, D, North Carolina

The Chaos' selecting another tough defenseman is not a surprise. That defenseman being Rowlett is. He’s the type of defenseman that doesn’t make friends with his play style; unless said friends are players on his team. You know what other defenseman was like that? Brian Spallina. He won more pro outdoor championships than any other player in the history of the sport.

8. Redwoods: Tyler Dunn, M, Penn

It’s as if the Redwoods’ brass read my complaint from the first round and selected a player that works as a rebuttal and as a solid addition to their philosophy. Dunn has proven to be one of the most revenge-fueled scorers in the NCAA this season. He’s the kind of player that always asks “Why not?” right before he takes a shot or goes at a No. 1 defenseman who switched onto him. The question is: does that transfer to the pros?

Finally. After being shunned by MLL teams last month, Smith gets selected a round too late. I don’t know if there is another offensive player in this draft with as much versatility as Smith, and it’s puzzling that he fell this far. If you’re looking for what a stereotypical pro lacrosse player is like, you’d be hard pressed to find a better example than Smith — he’s got size, speed, vision, scoring ability and can play all six spots in the settled offense. There are bargains all over, but this pick is larcenous.

10. Chrome: Chris Sabia, D, Penn State

Sabia would have been the logical choice after Surdick earlier this round, but every other teams’ loss is the Chrome’s gain. Imagine a backline of Sabia, Manley and Mullins. Or, actually, don’t do that because a bruise might just form on your arm by deigning to consider it.

11. Atlas: Cade Van Raaphorst, D, Duke

The one thing PLL teams need more than anything else is help defense. Every team is chock full of cover and transition guys, but the actual do-it-all hedge/helper is what makes a defense work. CVR is a No. 1 cover man in college, but in the pros his role will be far more nuanced. Stoppers are only as good as their slide and defenses are only as good as their recovery — CVR makes an already top-tier Atlas squad into a title favorite.

12. Archers: Curtis Corley, D, Maryland

Since the Whipsnakes have all of the other Maryland guys on their roster, it makes sense that someone would keep them from adding another Terp. However, those sorts of games are for the fourth round, not the third (or the second). Not when you can take a second LSM to back up Scott Ratliff and Isaac Paparo is sitting there getting a Gorilla tattoo before senior day. Corley is a good defender, but the Archers have a lot of poles that are just like Corley on their squad already.

Round Three

Let’s not mince words — Jackson has not had a fun senior season. He has 15 goals and six assists in 12 games for the Pios so far this season. Like it or not, he has been the victim of drawing a top pole with the graduation of a number of his contemporaries in 2018 and has found his life more difficult as a result. The Archers have plenty of midfielders that do things better than Jackson already, so it’s going to be tough for him to crack the lineup.

14. Atlas: Noah Richard, LSM, Marquette

No NCAA team has been more mercurial than the Golden Eagles this season, but that’s not Richard’s fault. The younger brother of Atlas SSDM Jake Richard, Noah Richard brings a full LSM skillset to the Atlas. Unless they expect to let Kyle Hartzell run LSM all summer by himself, they needed cover for this position and Richard fits that mold. UMass’ Isaac Paparo would have been a great choice here, as well, but brothers do not, in fact shake hands; brothers gotta hug. Can’t argue with blood.

15. Chrome: Max Tuttle, M, Sacred Heart

Tuttle has surged back to early season levels in the last few games after suffering a bit of a drop off in production. He’s a player that likes to have the ball in his stick. At the same time, he's not selfish. Sacred Heart also runs its fast-paced offense through Tuttle, so his adjustment period should be quick assuming he doesn’t pass out from shock every time he gets the ball passed to him instead of running 50 yards to go get the ball and then dodge and re-dodge five times to get to cage.

16. Whipsnakes: Isaac Paparo, LSM, UMass

For every soft ACC guy that doesn’t pan out in the pros, there are 30 CAA guys who could survive a nuclear winter. For some reason, Towson players are the ones getting recognized as of late, but people forget that inherent toughness and a competitive nature are prerequisites for any manner of success in the pros. Paparo has both of those attributes, slick stick skills, a hateful motor and international experience with Team Israel last summer. Great pick.

If you go back and look at all of Notre Dame’s losses this season, there is one direct correlation: Brendan Gleason registered two points or less in all of them. Conversely, Gleason has averaged 3.6 points in every Notre Dame win, including five goals in last weekend’s key victory over North Carolina. Life isn’t always going to be easy in the pros, but Gleason could flourish — as many players do — as a spark for the second midfield or man up (five of his 23 goals have come on EMO this season).

18. Chaos: Greyson Torain, M, Navy

Like the bright spot on a pair of discarded steampunk cosplay goggles, Torain has the potential to complete a look. The question is how does he fit into the Chaos, as it were. The team has a very Canadian flavor to it, so what better way to assimilate to the newest iteration of field lacrosse than to insert a very American midfielder into the mix?

Round Four

19. Chaos: Austin Henningsen, FO, Maryland

An absolutely necessary pick for the Chaos as Thomas Kelly is the only face-off man on the roster. Henningsen has a tough choice to make after being selected in the first round of the MLL draft by the Boston Cannons, where he has a better chance to start right away. Will playing time actually be the thing that splits this class down the middle? Well? Will it?

20. Redwoods: Tim Troutner, G, High Point

The lone goalkeeper to be selected in the draft, Troutner has been the… Highest of Point for most of the 2019 season. The Panthers turn the ball over a lot (273 times in 13 games) and, as a result, Troutner averages nearly 13 saves a game. One of the things that goalies struggle with when they go pro is how many shots they see vs. what they were used to in college — that won’t be a problem for Timmy and it’s probably one of the main reasons he was the only goalie taken.

There are a lot of players that can play multiple spots in the 6-on-6 for the Whipsnakes, so I don’t see Dannigellis fitting in as a player that gets to participate in the half-field set. However, he has all the tools to succeed at the pro level as a groundball machine and transition threat.

22. Chrome: Connor Farrell, FO, LIU Post

Coach Dom Starsia already has the best thunder and lightning face-off duo in the league in Brendan Fowler and Drew Simoneau, but adding a wildcard like Farrell can’t hurt. If you taught a rhino how to take draws and then sent him to a DII school, you would get Farrell. He’s more than pure power, though — he’s a technician that will make what was an easy starting lineup decision very difficult this summer.

23. Atlas: Brent Noseworthy, M, Michigan

Noseworthy has been carrying an injury through the second half of the college season, but All-American voters didn’t forget his accomplishments last season as he made IL's Preseason Media Second Team. You don’t get there by accident and certainly not if you play at Michigan. But you know coach John Paul wasn’t going to let the most talented Wolverine, a player he recruited, go undrafted.

24. Archers: John Prendergast, SSDM, Duke

The Archers have one of the best D-mid groups in the league with exceptional cover and help guys Dominique Alexander and Mark McNeill, as well as criminally underrated transition threat Nick Tintle. If there is room for Prendergast on the game day roster, the Archers can run out a matchup proof rope unit.