Should I start Austin Ekeler or Omarion Hampton in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Omarion Hampton, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 7; 2QB: ADP 22.

The market-based projections

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 2.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Omarion Hampton's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Omarion Hampton has been on the field for 43 percent of LAC snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 32 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he carried 9 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against HOU he carried 13 times for 60 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.

He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Omarion Hampton played 9 games and scored 135.7 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing RB35.

He carried 124 times for 545 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 32 of 35 targets for 192 more yards.

That came to 13.8 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 3.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Omarion Hampton was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 8.5 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Omarion Hampton RB35.

Omarion Hampton had 110 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 124 to 14.

Omarion Hampton had 27 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 32 to 5.

This season Omarion Hampton holds the bigger snap share, 43 percent against 25 percent.

This season Omarion Hampton holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Omarion Hampton has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.