COMMERCE CITY, Colo.\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0Colorado Rapids announced today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0a second-round pick in the 2027 MLS SuperDraft, along with up to $100,000 in conditional General Allocation Money (GAM)\u00a0from San Diego FC, in exchange for defender Ian Murphy.\u00a0The second-round pick is Charlotte FC\u2019s natural section that San Diego previously\u00a0acquired\u00a0on April 10th. As part of the trade, Colorado will\u00a0retain\u00a0a\u00a0portion\u00a0of Murphy\u2019s salary budget charge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to thank Ian for his contributions to the Rapids during his time with the club,\u201d said Colorado Rapids President P\u00e1draig Smith. \u201cIan has been a top professional and a valued member of our organization. We appreciate his commitment and wish him all the best as he begins this next chapter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Redlands, California, native joined Colorado ahead of the 2025 season and made 22 appearances across all competitions for the Rapids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TRANSACTION: Colorado Rapids\u00a0acquire\u00a0San Diego FC\u2019s second-round pick in the 2027 MLS SuperDraft, along with up to $100,000 in conditional General Allocation Money (GAM), in exchange for defender Ian Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMERCE CITY, Colo.\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0Colorado Rapids announced today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0a second-round pick in the 2027 MLS SuperDraft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[43956,152794,8939,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-377415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-colorado-rapids","tag-ian-murphy","tag-press-releases","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}