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Delaware

Blue Hens

Delaware’s Delaware-developed core is 9 players on the 2026 roster.

2026 roster · Roster geography

On the 2026 roster, 9 of 105 spots are filled by Delaware players with no earlier college team detected, and 17 players arrived after playing somewhere else.

The median player grew up 112 mi from campus.

Of the 17 players who came from another college, 1 is from Delaware. Those home-state players make up 6% of detected-transfer stock on this roster.

The record reaches back to 1963, when 29% of the roster came from Delaware. Today it is 10%.

Then → now

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–25—8.1%—17.1%
  • Local-developed core
  • Transfer stock
Measure2016–182021–25
Local-developed core—8.1%
Transfer stock—17.1%

The roster, at a glance

  • 258 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 99 located players.
  • 9.5%In-state9.5% of the roster is from Delaware.
  • 42.4%Backyard42.4% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 16.2%Detected transfers16.2% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where Delaware ranks

Most In-State#1309.5%Most Transfers#11116.2%Closest to Home#6258 miFarthest From Home#133258 miBiggest Localism Shift#479.5%Most Backyard Players#1042.4%Fewest Transfers#2816.2%Biggest Transfer Shift—Not enough data

Homecoming Radius over time

The median hometown-to-campus distance, by season. The dotted line is the FBS median.

050100150200250FBS median (250 mi)196319761988200120132026

Roster composition over time

Where the in-state lens draws the line: local-developed, local transfer, outsider developed, outsider transfer, and unknown. This chart begins where stable athlete IDs make transfer detection possible; the radius chart above carries the official-archive geography farther back.

Local-developedOutsider developedOutsider transfer20252026

Where do Delaware's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
20261059.5%16.2%112 mi
20251119.0%17.1%112 mi
2024archive10711.3%29.9% proxy106 mi
2023archive10913.1%30.3% proxy102 mi
2022archive10916.8%15.6% proxy72 mi
2021archive11516.5%5.2% proxy66 mi
2019archive10724.3%1.9% proxy61 mi
2018archive11822.2%0.0% proxy60 mi
2017archive11324.8%0.0% proxy56 mi
2016archive10024.0%0.0% proxy63 mi
2015archive9323.7%0.0% proxy67 mi
2014archive9417.0%0.0% proxy77 mi
2013archive10018.0%0.0% proxy85 mi
2012archive9915.2%0.0% proxy77 mi
2011archive11514.9%0.0% proxy83 mi
2010archive10815.0%0.0% proxy78 mi
2009archive10312.6%0.0% proxy—
2008archive10111.9%0.0% proxy82 mi
2007archive9213.0%0.0% proxy74 mi
2006archive10515.4%0.0% proxy80 mi
2005archive9712.8%0.0% proxy96 mi
2004archive9312.2%0.0% proxy120 mi
2003archive8213.8%0.0% proxy138 mi
2002archive9217.6%0.0% proxy87 mi
2001archive10221.8%0.0% proxy—
2000archive10516.3%0.0% proxy—
1999archive9618.8%0.0% proxy80 mi
1998archive9318.3%0.0% proxy92 mi
1997archive7512.0%0.0% proxy101 mi
1996archive10819.4%0.0% proxy88 mi
1995archive10622.6%0.0% proxy73 mi
1994archive12422.0%0.0% proxy61 mi
1993archive11617.4%0.0% proxy59 mi
1992archive10516.3%0.0% proxy58 mi
1991archive10215.8%0.0% proxy58 mi
1990archive10417.5%0.0% proxy58 mi
1989archive10420.4%0.0% proxy60 mi
1988archive9820.6%0.0% proxy65 mi
1987archive9323.9%0.0% proxy65 mi
1986archive10118.0%0.0% proxy—
1985archive8910.1%0.0% proxy—
1984archive8711.5%0.0% proxy—
1983archive9012.2%0.0% proxy58 mi
1982archive9515.8%0.0% proxy56 mi
1981archive8614.1%0.0% proxy58 mi
1980archive9318.3%0.0% proxy58 mi
1979archive9522.3%0.0% proxy66 mi
1978archive‡5418.5%0.0% proxy70 mi
1977archive8318.1%0.0% proxy74 mi
1976archive8319.3%0.0% proxy65 mi
1975archive8123.5%0.0% proxy41 mi
1974archive8625.9%0.0% proxy44 mi
1973archive8927.2%0.0% proxy—
1972archive9332.2%0.0% proxy—
1971archive8724.4%0.0% proxy—
1970archive7821.8%0.0% proxy—
1969archive8022.5%0.0% proxy47 mi
1968archive‡6319.0%0.0% proxy47 mi
1967archive‡6914.5%0.0% proxy42 mi
1966archive‡6625.8%0.0% proxy40 mi
1965archive‡5122.0%0.0% proxy41 mi
1964archive‡6128.1%0.0% proxy52 mi
1963archive7028.8%0.0% proxy60 mi

‡ fewer than 70 roster rows or under 75% known home state — treat with caution.

archive = official athletic-site roster. “Proxy” is the share listing a previous school where that field behaved like a transfer field; it is not the same measure as detected transfer stock.

Where the roster grew up

Every 2026 player's hometown, with campus marked and the Homecoming Radius circled.

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Homecoming Radius: 112 mi

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