Program field guide · 2026

Conference USA · Georgia

Kennesaw State

Owls

Kennesaw State’s Georgia-developed core is 37 players on the 2026 roster.

2026 roster · Roster geography

On the 2026 roster, 37 of 99 spots are filled by Georgia players with no earlier college team detected, and 28 players arrived after playing somewhere else.

The median player grew up 193 mi from campus.

Of the 28 players who came from another college, 5 are from Georgia. Those home-state players make up 18% of detected-transfer stock on this roster.

The record reaches back to 2014, when 94% of the roster came from Georgia. Today it is 42%.

Then → now

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–25—51.4%—21.1%
  • Local-developed core
  • Transfer stock
Measure2016–182021–25
Local-developed core—51.4%
Transfer stock—21.1%

The roster, at a glance

  • 309 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 94 located players.
  • 42.4%In-state42.4% of the roster is from Georgia.
  • 36.2%Backyard36.2% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 28.3%Detected transfers28.3% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where Kennesaw State ranks

Most In-State#3942.4%Most Transfers#4628.3%Closest to Home#14309 miFarthest From Home#125309 miBiggest Localism Shift#342.4%Most Backyard Players#2036.2%Fewest Transfers#9328.3%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.

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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-developedLocal transferOutsider developedOutsider transfer202420252026

Where do Kennesaw State's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
20269942.4%28.3%193 mi
202510155.4%27.7%142 mi
202412465.0%14.5%80 mi
2023archive8568.2%17.6% proxy77 mi
2022archive10176.2%15.8% proxy70 mi
2021archive10368.6%11.7% proxy81 mi
2019archive9775.3%16.5% proxy72 mi
2018archive10978.9%18.3% proxy53 mi
2017archive9377.4%16.1% proxy56 mi
2016archive10382.5%25.2% proxy42 mi
2015archive11486.8%0.9% proxy42 mi
2014archive8394.0%1.2% proxy40 mi

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: 193 mi

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