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Missouri State Bears football roster hometowns

Where are Missouri State players from?

On the 2026 Missouri State football roster, 20.6% of players with a known home state are from Missouri. The median listed hometown is 440 mi from campus (Homecoming Radius).

The 2026 snapshot was collected before the season. Sources and definitions

The Missouri State roster story

On the 2026 roster, 18 of 102 spots are filled by Missouri players not previously rostered elsewhere in the data, and 31 players were previously rostered elsewhere.

The median player on the 2026 roster grew up 440 mi from campus. The reliable geography record begins in 2006. Among players with a known home state, 54% were from Missouri, compared with 21% on the 2026 roster.

Before and during the portal era

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–25—20.0%—31.4%
  • In-state, not rostered elsewhere
  • Previously rostered elsewhere
Measure2016–182021–25
In-state, not rostered elsewhere—20.0%
Previously rostered elsewhere—31.4%

The 2026 roster

  • 527 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 95 located players.
  • 20.6%In-state20.6% of players with a known home state are from Missouri.
  • 5.3%Backyard5.3% of players with a located hometown grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 30.4%Previously rostered elsewhere30.4% of the roster appeared on another college roster in an earlier season.

Where Missouri State ranks

Most In-State#9620.6%Most Transfers#4030.4%Closest to Home#85527 miFarthest From Home#54527 miBiggest In-State 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: home-state players with and without an earlier college roster, out-of-state players with and without one, and players with unknown geography. This chart begins where stable athlete IDs make transfer detection possible; the radius chart above carries the official-archive geography farther back.

In-state, not rostered elsewhereOut-of-state, not rostered elsewhereOut-of-state, rostered elsewhere20252026

Where do Missouri State's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateRostered elsewhereRadius
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

In-state shares use players with a known home state. Radius uses located hometowns.

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 the share previously rostered elsewhere.

Where the roster grew up

Located hometowns on the 2026 roster, with campus marked and the Homecoming Radius circled.

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Homecoming Radius: 440 mi

This slider is exploratory. Rankings use fixed distance lenses.

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