Program field guide · 2026

Mountain West · Wyoming

Wyoming

Cowboys

Wyoming’s Wyoming-developed core held at 10 players.

2026 roster · Roster geography

In 2016, 10 of 109 roster spots were filled by Wyoming players with no earlier college team detected. On the 2026 roster, 10 of 112 fit the same definition. Detected transfers went from 3 to 8.

In 2016 the median player grew up 664 mi from campus. Now it is 763 mi.

None of the 8 players who came from another college grew up in Wyoming.

Then → now

2016–18 compared with 2021–25

2016–182021–2513.5%10.7%1.6%6.9%
  • Local-developed core
  • Transfer stock
Measure2016–182021–25
Local-developed core13.5%10.7%
Transfer stock1.6%6.9%

The roster, at a glance

  • 692 miAverage hometown distanceAverage hometown distance among 104 located players.
  • 8.9%In-state8.9% of the roster is from Wyoming.
  • 7.7%Backyard7.7% grew up within 100 miles of campus.
  • 7.1%Detected transfers7.1% of the roster arrived after playing at another school.

Across the FBS

Where Wyoming ranks

Most In-State#1318.9%Most Transfers#1337.1%Closest to Home#116692 miFarthest From Home#23692 miBiggest Localism Shift#1188.9%Most Backyard Players#1247.7%Fewest Transfers#67.1%Biggest Transfer Shift#1237.1%

Homecoming Radius over time

The median hometown-to-campus distance, by season. The dotted line is the FBS median.

0200400600800FBS median (250 mi)200920122016201920232026

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 transfer200920122016201920232026

Where do Wyoming's players come from?

SeasonRosterIn-stateTransfer signalRadius
20261128.9%7.1%763 mi
20251169.5%10.3%749 mi
202412013.3%6.7%743 mi
202311711.1%8.5%743 mi
20221149.6%6.1%687 mi
20211129.8%2.7%745 mi
202013118.6%1.5%621 mi
201911419.3%1.8%665 mi
20189716.7%0.0%810 mi
201710114.9%2.0%611 mi
20161099.2%2.8%664 mi
201511513.9%1.7%614 mi
20141138.9%0.9%701 mi
20131088.4%0.0%753 mi
20121109.2%0.0%747 mi
2011999.2%0.0%650 mi
201011014.5%0.0%617 mi
20099813.3%0.0%580 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: 763 mi

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

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