Hustlers drop entire roster, and Shock say goodbye to Fahey: All the moves from the MLP Player Keeper Deadline
The Player Keeper Deadline for the 2025 MLP season has officially passed, and we now have the results.
All teams were allowed to keep up to three players from last season, as long as they pay MLP half the amount of draft capital initially spent to select that player via the dynamic bidding process.
To be eligible to be kept, a player must:
- 1. Be under UPA contract through at least 2025
- 2. Be one of the 88 originally drafted players from 2024
- 3. Not have been waived at any point during the 2024 season
- 4. Have ended the season on a team roster
Each team was also required to drop at least one player from its roster at the Player Keeper Deadline.
Every player that was dropped—as well as every other UPA-contracted player not on an MLP roster—will have a chance to be drafted during the Premier Level and Challenger Level drafts, which will take place on Mar. 2 and Mar. 3, respectively.
I’ve listed—by level and team—which players were kept and dropped, as well as the general reason for each drop.
I’ve also included each player’s keeper cost. If a player’s cost is not listed, it means that they were either taken in the Challenger draft in 2024 or picked up off of waivers at some point last season. In both cases, the keeper cost would be zero.
Let’s get into the details.
Premier Level (6 players per team)
- Dropped: Emily Cederquist (Contract)
- Kept: Jaume Martinez Vich, Vivian Glozman, Todd Fought
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
- Dropped: Yana Newell (Contract)
- Kept: Ben Johns ($420K), Kaitlyn Christian ($29.5K), Collin Johns ($0.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $450K
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
- Dropped: Jack Munro, Megan Fudge, Allison Harris, Brendon Long
- Kept: Chicago had no players that were eligible to be kept. (Contract)
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 3 males, 3 females
- Dropped: Callie Smith (Team choice) ($74K)
- Kept: Andrei Daescu ($265K), Parris Todd ($92.5K), CJ Klinger ($1K)
- $pent on Keepers: $358.5K
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
- Dropped: James Ignatowich (Team choice) ($250K)
- Kept: Rachel Rohrabacher ($165K), Jackie Kawamoto ($142.5), Dekel Bar ($76K)
- $pent on Keepers: $383.5K
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Augie Ge (Team choice) ($10.5K)
- Kept: JW Johnson ($195K), Jorja Johnson ($142.5K), Tyra Black ($92.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $430K
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Thomas Wilson (Team choice) ($185K)
- Kept: Catherine Parenteau ($220K), Jade Kawamoto ($85K), Hunter Johnson ($10K)
- $pent on Keepers: $315K
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Noe Khlif (Waiver), Bobbi Oshiro (Contract)
- Kept: Eric Oncins, Milan Rane
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 2 females
- Dropped: Amanda Hendry (Contract)
- Kept: Anna Leigh Waters ($340K), Zane Navratil ($82.5K), Will Howells ($27.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $450K
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
- Dropped: Susannah Barr (Contract), Jack Sock (Team choice) ($275K), Riley Newman (Team choice) ($275K), Lea Jansen (Team choice) ($77K)
- Kept: New York did not keep any players.
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 3 males, 3 females
- Dropped: Vivienne David (Team choice) ($140K)
- Kept: Federico Staksrud ($200K), Dylan Frazier ($177.5K), Lacy Schneemann ($20.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $398K
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
- Dropped: Jay Devilliers (Team choice)
- Kept: Meghan Dizon ($150K), Tyson McGuffin ($145K), Jessie Irvine ($5.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $300.5K
- Draft Need: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Max Manthou (Contract)
- Kept: Judit Castillo, Irina Tereschenko, Erik Lange
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Kate Fahey (Team choice) ($8.5K)
- Kept: Anna Bright ($295K), Hayden Patriquin (102.5K), Gabe Tardio ($92.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $490K
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
- Dropped: Quang Duong (Waiver)
- Kept: Christian Alshon ($265K), Etta Tuionetoa ($157.5K), Tina Pisnik ($69K)
- $pent on Keepers: $491.5K
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Genie Bouchard (Waiver)
- Kept: Connor Garnett ($70K), Tyler Loong ($29K), Alix Truong (0.5K)
- $pent on Keepers: $99.5K
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 2 females
Challenger Level (4 players per team)
- Dropped: Collin Shick (Contract), Jill Braverman (Contract), Martin Emmrich (Waiver)
- Kept: Allyce Jones ($9K)
- $pent on Keepers: $9K
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
- Dropped: Brandon French (Waiver)
- Kept: Rafa Hewett, Lina Padegimaite, Layne Sleeth
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 1 male
- Dropped: Blaine Hovenier (Waiver)
- Kept: Mari Humberg ($49K), Andrea Koop ($5.5K), Daniel de la Rosa
- $pent on Keepers: $54.5K
- Draft Needs: 1 male
- Dropped: Donald Young (Waiver), Christa Gecheva (Waiver)
- Kept: Travis Rettenmaier, Martina Frantova
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 1 male, 1 female
- Dropped: Chris Haworth (Contract)
- Kept: Pablo Tellez ($6.5K), Brooke Buckner ($5K), Chao Yi “Zoey” Wang
- $pent on Keepers: $11.5K
- Draft Needs: 1 male
- Dropped: Michael Loyd (Waiver), Stefan Auvergne (Team choice), Tamaryn Emmrich (Waiver)
- Kept: Ewa Radzikowska
- $pent on Keepers: None
- Draft Needs: 2 males, 1 female
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