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On Monday afternoon teams submitted their Protected Lists ahead of Wednesday's Expansion Draft which will see New York City F.C. and Orlando City S.C. go round-for-round, selecting players from the exposed lists. Those that are deemed "Protected" cannot be selected by the new teams and, if an "Exposed" player is picked up, the Dynamo will be allowed to move a player into the "Protected", bringing the total to 12.
AJ Cochran and Jason Johnson, by way of Generation Adidas, are protected automatically. New signing "Memo" Rodriguez and Bryan Salazar also escape the draft thanks to their Homegrown status. Here's the full list below:
| Protected | Exposed |
| Giles Barnes | Corey Ashe |
| DaMarcus Beasley | Servando Carrasco |
| Boniek Garcia | Omar Cummings |
| Will Bruin | David Horst |
| Ricardo Clark | Samuel Inkoom |
| Brad Davis | Brian Ownby |
| Tyler Deric | Anthony Arena |
| Luis Garrido | Michael Lisch |
| Alex Lopez | Mark Sherrod |
| Kofi Sarkodie | Joe Willis |
| Jermaine Taylor |
A full list of all MLS teams' lists can be found here.