Program field guide · 2026

Conference USA · Texas

Sam Houston

Bearkats

Sam Houston’s Texas-developed core is 43 players on the 2026 roster.

2026 roster · Roster geography

On the 2026 roster, 43 of 103 spots are filled by Texas players with no earlier college team detected, and 32 players arrived after playing somewhere else.

The median player grew up 263 mi from campus.

Of the 32 players who came from another college, 8 are from Texas. Those home-state players make up 25% of detected-transfer stock on this roster.

The record reaches back to 1984, when 87% of the roster came from Texas. Today it is 50%.

Then → now

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–25—63.9%—19.6%
  • Local-developed core
  • Transfer stock
Measure2016–182021–25
Local-developed core—63.9%
Transfer stock—19.6%

The roster, at a glance

  • 517 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 100 located players.
  • 49.5%In-state49.5% of the roster is from Texas.
  • 26.0%Backyard26.0% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 31.1%Detected transfers31.1% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where Sam Houston ranks

Most In-State#2949.5%Most Transfers#3631.1%Closest to Home#82517 miFarthest From Home#57517 miBiggest Localism Shift#549.5%Most Backyard Players#4726.0%Fewest Transfers#10331.1%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.

050100150200250FBS median (250 mi)198419922001200920182026

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 transfer2023202420252026

Where do Sam Houston's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
202610349.5%31.1%263 mi
202510556.2%27.6%190 mi
202411883.8%18.6%153 mi
202311182.0%12.6%154 mi
2022archive11487.4%0.0% proxy108 mi
2021archive12588.5%0.0% proxy127 mi
2019archive9680.0%0.0% proxy158 mi
2018archive9281.1%0.0% proxy153 mi
2017archive9788.7%0.0% proxy128 mi
2016archive10085.0%0.0% proxy158 mi
2015archive10085.9%0.0% proxy150 mi
2014archive10189.0%0.0% proxy142 mi
2013archive9292.3%0.0% proxy133 mi
2012archive8895.4%0.0% proxy126 mi
2011archive9292.3%0.0% proxy114 mi
2010archive9088.8%0.0% proxy114 mi
2009archive9183.5%0.0% proxy130 mi
2008archive8285.4%0.0% proxy131 mi
2007archive8190.1%0.0% proxy127 mi
2006archive9195.6%0.0% proxy106 mi
2005archive8998.9%0.0% proxy105 mi
2004archive92100.0%0.0% proxy106 mi
2003archive96100.0%0.0% proxy92 mi
2002archive8596.4%0.0% proxy111 mi
2001archive8897.7%0.0% proxy112 mi
2000archive8695.3%0.0% proxy113 mi
1999archive8994.4%0.0% proxy115 mi
1998archive87100.0%0.0% proxy114 mi
1997archive9397.8%0.0% proxy113 mi
1996archive8596.4%0.0% proxy114 mi
1995archive8997.8%0.0% proxy114 mi
1994archive8296.3%0.0% proxy107 mi
1993archive7896.2%0.0% proxy93 mi
1992archive8297.6%0.0% proxy81 mi
1991archive8797.7%0.0% proxy91 mi
1990archive10999.1%0.0% proxy83 mi
1989archive89100.0%0.0% proxy66 mi
1988archive9396.8%0.0% proxy72 mi
1987archive9597.9%0.0% proxy93 mi
1986archive8298.8%0.0% proxy95 mi
1985archive9991.9%0.0% proxy95 mi
1984archive8787.4%0.0% proxy114 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: 263 mi

(This slider is for exploring — leaderboards use the fixed lenses.)

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