Stats for Maja Lardner, new Racing Louisville attacking signee out of Georgetown

Stats for new Denver Summit signing Natalie Means, a (likely) left-back from Georgetown. AKA the dribbling queen of this rookie class.

Stats for new Chicago Stars signing Elise Evans, center-back from Stanford. AKA the first move from the Stars that I've actually liked this offseason.

UC Santa Barbara's Natalie Sheffey has departed to turn pro after one season, signing with FC Badalona in the Spanish top tier.

This is such an insane take (Harvey's, not XOG's), because if a male coach had said it, the WoSo fanbase would STILL be screaming about mediocre men getting and keeping these jobs. The lack of self-awareness is absolutely mind blowing here.

Stats for new Racing Louisville right-back Macy Blackburn, coming from Texas Tech

Whoops. Corrected stats for Gotham GK signee Teagan Wy. Had the U20 WWC stats included in by mistake.

Lord, I usually get 6-7 years on the lifespan of my laptops, but when the end comes, it comes quickly. Which is a problem currently, since I've got another 1.5-2 weeks to go with this thing until my new far too expensive monstrosity arrives.

I'll have more tonight, but: The San Diego Wave are like the Uncut Gems of roster construction, as watching them procrastinate and wheel and deal gives me an anxiety attack. O'Steen yanked away the "wait, what are you doing with this decision?1?" offseason crown from Padelski.

It figures that all the moves are happening in the NWSL on the day I'm time crunched to actually give updates.

Stats for Utah Royals NRI Naila Schoefberger, a CB out of Mississippi State

Stats for Utah Royals NRI Kiki Maki, a center-back from Virginia

Stats for Utah Royals NRI Mia Fontana who was a seventh-year senior for Cal this past year thanks to a lot of injuries. For context, she was in U.S. U18 camp at the same time as players like Maycee Bell and Reilyn Turner back in the day.

I'm also updating positions on the NWSL roster chart and will have a potential lineup graphic for each team as I finish up. Again, this ain't gonna be a quick process, but I've got two months until the season starts!

Will be giving some stats for NRIs who just departed college after the 2025 season. This will not be a short process. First up, Utah Royals GK Taylor Rath.

New Denver signing Melissa Kossler posted a 0.67 xG + xA per 90' mark in her Frauen Bundesliga career (dating back to before her UMass stint). That includes 0.71 for 25/26, 0.66 for 24/25.

Former Chicago Red Star Ava Cook has made the switch to the USL Super League, signing with Carolina Ascent.

www.ussoccer.com/stories/2026... U.S. National Team Development camp roster to be held in Los Angeles running at same time as USWNT camp.

Portland Thorn free agent defender Kaitlyn Torpey has signed a contract with Newcastle United of the English Women's Super League 2 www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/newc...

I would absolutely pay for some type of poster of Utah's schedule release portraits. Take my money!

Here are how many of your NWSL team's OVERALL games will be on linear TV in 2026 (Ion, CBS family, ABC/ESPN family): 19 - AC, DEN, POR 18 - KC 17 - CHI 16 - BOS, NC, WSH 15 - BAY 14 - GFC, SD 13 - URFC 12 - HOU, SEA 11 - LOU 9 - ORL

Here are how many of your NWSL team's home games will be on linear TV in 2026 (Ion, CBS family, ABC/ESPN family): 12 - DEN, KC 10 - BAY, CHI 9 - POR 8 - BOS, NC, WSH 7 - HOU, SD 6 - AC, GFC 5 - LOU, SEA 4 - URFC 3 - ORL

Somehow the NWSL site didn't have TV details ready to go for each game on the actual schedule page, and there's no nice looking table on the news release of the schedule drop itself.

Stats for new Angel City GK, Faith Nguyen.

Come on, this day has been bad enough, I don't need it capped by hearing Hobbs is leaving AEW for the Evil Empire.

Stats for new Houston Dash signing Kate Faasse.

Not going full stats with this one, but new Denver signing Emma Regan won 70.3% of her defensive challenges while completing about 70% of her passes to final third & 60.6% of her passes to the penalty area. Also 74.5% completion for forward passes.

Stats for new North Carolina Courage goalkeeper, Molly Pritchard.

www.theguardian.com/football/202... Some truly bananas happenings in the French league. Some serious LOLs at Fleury snitching and telling other teams to file complaints too though.

hailstate.com/news/2026/1/... One of college WoSo's best, Ally Perry, is off to Italy with Juventus.

I'll be hitting up every NWSL team's preseason roster for NRI details, but those are obviously going to be lower in the queue than players on full contracts.

NWSL Roster Counts (after 1/13) 28 - GFC 25 - POR 24 - AC, KC, SEA, WSH 23 - BAY, BOS, CHI 22 - HOU, NC, ORL, URFC 21 - LOU 19 - SD 13 - DEN

Stats for new Houston Dash signing Linda Ullmark, a midfielder/winger from UNC.

New Washington Spirit signing Elisabeth Tse won 80.6% of her defensive duels in the French top division over the past three seasons.

By my very rough count, on the eve of NWSL preseason, there are *53* players in the free agent pool that were on rosters at the end of last year. Two whole teams worth of players!

It feels like the words “SALARY CAP” are blinking in bright neon letters with a lot of KC’s offseason moves.

Trying something a little different with the NCAA WoSo stat sheet for the 2025 season. Good news is I'm already over 20% of the way done with the season having ended just a month ago. (And, yes, the 2024 sheet will be coming too. Late, late, late.)

Since Chicago's engaged in a long-term rebuild plan, they've signed some top college players this offseason, right? Right!?!

Chicago's offseason was already, uh, not great, but after that trade, Mallory Swanson better be coming back with superpowers.

Hey Chicago Stars...

If you're asking me who might be the most likely USL'er to get the call to the NWSL, I'd probably guess Ashlyn Puerta. Or considering the goalkeeping holes on a lot of rosters, Hope Hisey.

USL's DC Power signed Gianna Gourley to a contract extension through next season. She likely would have been on the shortlist of USL'ers getting NWSL interest, as she's currently leading the league in xG + xA by a mile.

Yeah, for half her college career, so I guess that counts as much as someone who played one season at SMU.

If Elisabeth Tse sees minutes for the Spirit, she'd give SMU their first NWSL player. She only played there for a year. But it all counts, I suppose.

Well, Racing Louisville is back down to 1 GK on the roster with Roque getting loaned out.

www.theguardian.com/football/202... If you want to start out your week with some painful news, Qatar looks to be the favorite to host the 2028 FIFA Women's Club World Cup.

Stats for new Denver Summit signing, Yuna McCormack, who is forgoing her last season of eligibility at Florida State.

LOL, Lafleur's gonna get fired on the tarmac.

Hey, instead of a full roster count, here's the number of goalkeepers your NWSL team currently has rostered. Not counting GKs out on loan. 5 - WSH 4 - CHI, SEA 3 - GFC, HOU, ORL, POR, URFC, BOS, KC 2 - AC, BAY, NC, LOU 1 - DEN And finally... ZEROOOOOOOO - SD

Stats for Gotham camp NRI, Kat Jordan, a center mid out of Santa Clara. Note that I won't be counting NRIs towards the roster count, but they will be listed on my roster sheets.