Omarion Hampton or Brian Thomas Jr.: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Omarion Hampton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Thomas Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brian Thomas Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Omarion Hampton has been on the field for 45 percent of LAC snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against BUF he carried 15 times for 56 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 9 times for 45 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DEN he carried 14 times for 33 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. played 14 games and scored 138.8 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing WR42.

He caught 48 of 91 targets for 707 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brian Thomas Jr. was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Brian Thomas Jr. 9.9, 5.2 a game between them.

Omarion Hampton finished RB35 and Brian Thomas Jr. WR42, which are two different ladders.

Omarion Hampton is a running back and Brian Thomas Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

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 is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.