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Analysis: Expectations for each member of Nashville SC's squad in 2025

SixOneFive Soccer's Ben Wright breaks down Nashville SC's current roster and expectations for each player in 2025.

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It's hard to believe that the 2025 Major League Soccer season is just 32 days away!

Here at SixOneFive Soccer, we're breaking down Nashville SC's roster player by player, previewing expectations for the squad and analyzing strengths and potential weaknesses for the group.

To do so, it's time for some quick math. In 2024, regular season matches averaged at 101 minutes long (including stoppage time). With 34 matches in the regular season and 11 players on the field, that means Nashville should have roughly 37,774 minutes to distribute among their players, along with 374 starts and up to 544 total appearances.

We're going to go through each player currently on the 2025 roster and attempt to give reasonable and realistic expectations for what their roles and performances should look like during the upcoming season. It's worth giving a caveat that these are educated guesses at best, and seasons are wildly unpredictable. Injuries happen, reinforcements are brought in, and players develop out of nowhere and defy expectations. These predictions will inevitably be wrong to some extent. My goal is to simply get close.

One other note: for familarity's sake, I've used the classic FIFA squad role designations: crucial, important, rotation, sporadic and prospect. Yes, I am well aware that real soccer isn't like FIFA. But these designations are easy and helpful ways to think about what role players fill.

Let's get this bread.


Goalkeepers

Joe Willis

Courtesy Nashville SC

Age: 36
Role: Crucial
Projected appearances: 32
Projected starts: 32
Projected minutes: 3,200
Projected goals/assists: N/A

Prediction: Willis will turn 37 before the season ends and is on the last guaranteed year of his contract, and I still don't think there's a real challenger for him in the squad. He's just a solid, no-frills goalkeeper. He should play virtually every game once again.

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