Program field guide · 2026

Conference USA · Missouri

Missouri State

Bears

Missouri State’s Missouri-developed core is 18 players on the 2026 roster.

2026 roster · Roster geography

On the 2026 roster, 18 of 102 spots are filled by Missouri players with no earlier college team detected, and 31 players arrived after playing somewhere else.

The median player grew up 440 mi from campus.

Of the 31 players who came from another college, 3 are from Missouri. Those home-state players make up 10% of detected-transfer stock on this roster.

The record reaches back to 2006, when 54% of the roster came from Missouri. Today it is 21%.

Then → now

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–25—20.0%—31.4%
  • Local-developed core
  • Transfer stock
Measure2016–182021–25
Local-developed core—20.0%
Transfer stock—31.4%

The roster, at a glance

  • 527 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 95 located players.
  • 20.6%In-state20.6% of the roster is from Missouri.
  • 5.3%Backyard5.3% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 30.4%Detected transfers30.4% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where Missouri State ranks

Most In-State#9620.6%Most Transfers#4030.4%Closest to Home#85527 miFarthest From Home#54527 miBiggest Localism Shift#820.6%Most Backyard Players#1365.3%Fewest Transfers#9930.4%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.

0100200300400FBS median (250 mi)200620102014201820222026

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 Missouri State's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
202610220.6%30.4%440 mi
202510524.8%31.4%414 mi
2024archive9829.6%40.8% proxy327 mi
2023archive9331.2%43.0% proxy283 mi
2022archive9724.0%49.5% proxy382 mi
2021archive9225.8%35.9% proxy347 mi
2020archive10037.8%31.0% proxy193 mi
2019archive8842.5%27.3% proxy193 mi
2018archive9252.7%26.1% proxy178 mi
2017archive8152.5%12.3% proxy170 mi
2016archive8758.1%10.3% proxy162 mi
2015archive9260.4%2.2% proxy172 mi
2014archive9454.3%1.1% proxy180 mi
2013archive9250.0%1.1% proxy178 mi
2012archive9448.9%1.1% proxy175 mi
2011archive8648.2%1.2% proxy180 mi
2010archive8950.6%0.0% proxy163 mi
2009archive8549.4%0.0% proxy163 mi
2008archive8357.3%0.0% proxy162 mi
2007archive8055.0%0.0% proxy182 mi
2006archive8254.3%0.0% proxy187 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: 440 mi

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