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2025 College Draft Prospect Profile: Andrew McAdorey

By Adam Lamberti | Apr 11, 2025

Andrew McAdorey is primarily known as an offensive threat at Duke, but his game is perfectly suited to be a two-way darling in the PLL.

Put him at attack, offensive midfield, defensive midfield or on the faceoff wings, and he’ll make an impact for you.

Andrew McAdorey's Player Comparison:

If Michael Sowers were a two-way midfielder

Lamberti’s Projected Draft Pick:

No. 2 overall to California Redwoods

As a consensus top-two recruit in high school, McAdorey was a true Swiss Army knife for his St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) squad. He played offensive and defensive midfield, took faceoffs when necessary and could even jump down to attack if his team needed an offensive spark.

Despite this label in high school, McAdorey has mostly been confined to playing offensive midfield and attack throughout his career at Duke.

As an offensive midfielder, he has explosive speed and is at his best when he gets a running start out of the box to his strong right hand.

McAdorey will always win this footrace, and while he can score on his own shot, he more often than not gets slid to and then moves the ball and gets the offense going.

This is what we call starting the party. McAdorey may not record a goal or assist on these long dodges from up top, but he’s able to draw a slide that gets the defense moving and frees up opportunities for his teammates.

At the attack position, McAdorey uses this same speed and quickness from behind the cage, where he likes to roll back to his right hand and finish through contact. He had three straight goals against Michigan, including the overtime winner, on this exact move less than two months ago.

But what makes McAdorey special in my eyes – and to a lot of PLL coaches – is his ability to make plays between the lines. 

Having an offensive-minded player on the faceoff wing is becoming increasingly important in the PLL with the 32-second shot clock off a win. Since you really don’t have much time to substitute players on and off and set up an offense, teams are putting their offensive-minded players on the wings. 

The New York Atlas utilized threats like Dox Aitken and Jake Stevens off the wing with great success last season, scoring on a league-leading 32.4% of possessions after a faceoff win. That percentage was better than every other team’s 52-second shot clock efficiency.

McAdorey is used sparingly on faceoff wings at Duke because they need him fresh for offensive sets, but he’s shown how dangerous he can be there when given the opportunity.

And for a team like, say, the Redwoods, who ranked dead last in offensive efficiency after faceoff wins at 16.1%, the idea of drafting McAdorey to help in this area could be especially enticing. (The Woods own the second and third overall picks in the 2025 College Draft.)

Even if his team doesn’t win the faceoff, I’m still comfortable with leaving McAdorey out on defense. He hasn’t played a ton of it at Duke, but he’s athletic, strong and just has that dawg to him.

Then, when he attacks from defense to offense, good luck keeping up with him.

I said it for Chris Kavanagh, and I’ll say it for McAdorey: It’s rare that you see a prospect and believe they would be a better professional than college player, but McAdorey fits that description.

He’s a high-level offensive player who has more than 150 career points and would be a special player just as an offensive midfielder or attackman. But when you factor in his athleticism and his ability and willingness to make plays all over the field, the sky is the limit for McAdorey, especially in the faster pace of the PLL.

He’s the type of player who could have a two-goal, one-assist, three-ground ball, one-caused turnover outing at the next level.

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