Program field guide · 2026

Mountain West · North Dakota

North Dakota State

Bison

North Dakota State’s North Dakota-developed core is 19 players on the 2026 roster.

2026 roster · Roster geography

On the 2026 roster, 19 of 130 spots are filled by North Dakota players with no earlier college team detected, and 11 players arrived after playing somewhere else.

The median player grew up 392 mi from campus.

None of the 11 players who came from another college grew up in North Dakota.

Then → now

Not enough reliable seasons in both 2016–18 and 2021–25 to compare.

The roster, at a glance

  • 447 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 115 located players.
  • 14.6%In-state14.6% of the roster is from North Dakota.
  • 10.4%Backyard10.4% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 8.5%Detected transfers8.5% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where North Dakota State ranks

Most In-State#11714.6%Most Transfers#1318.5%Closest to Home#60447 miFarthest From Home#79447 miBiggest Localism Shift—Not enough dataMost Backyard Players#11210.4%Fewest Transfers#88.5%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)2026

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 transfer2026

Where do North Dakota State's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
202613014.6%8.5%392 mi

Where the roster grew up

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

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Homecoming Radius: 392 mi

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