Program field guide · 2026

Conference USA · Alabama

Jacksonville State

Gamecocks

Jacksonville State’s Alabama-developed core is 50 players on the 2026 roster.

2026 roster · Roster geography

On the 2026 roster, 50 of 128 spots are filled by Alabama players with no earlier college team detected, and 23 players arrived after playing somewhere else.

The median player grew up 152 mi from campus.

Of the 23 players who came from another college, 5 are from Alabama. Those home-state players make up 22% of detected-transfer stock on this roster.

The record reaches back to 2016, when 60% of the roster came from Alabama. Today it is 43%.

Then → now

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–25—37.7%—20.4%
  • Local-developed core
  • Transfer stock
Measure2016–182021–25
Local-developed core—37.7%
Transfer stock—20.4%

The roster, at a glance

  • 247 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 120 located players.
  • 43.0%In-state43.0% of the roster is from Alabama.
  • 37.5%Backyard37.5% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 18.0%Detected transfers18.0% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where Jacksonville State ranks

Most In-State#3843.0%Most Transfers#10218.0%Closest to Home#3247 miFarthest From Home#136247 miBiggest Localism Shift#1443.0%Most Backyard Players#1837.5%Fewest Transfers#3718.0%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.

0100200300FBS median (250 mi)201620182020202220242026

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 transfer2023202420252026

Where do Jacksonville State's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
202612843.0%18.0%152 mi
202512141.3%24.0%117 mi
202412439.0%21.8%133 mi
202312944.5%15.5%105 mi
2022archive‡2423.8%29.2% proxy324 mi
2021archive11363.1%22.1% proxy74 mi
2020archive10059.6%20.0% proxy83 mi
2019archive10571.4%10.5% proxy84 mi
2018archive10770.1%16.8% proxy84 mi
2017archive10471.8%21.2% proxy84 mi
2016archive10360.0%32.0% proxy85 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: 152 mi

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