Omarion Hampton or Bryce Young: 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 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bryce Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 7.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 178 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 so far

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 4, Bryce Young has been on the field for 96 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 2 against ATL he completed 23 of 36 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 3 against CLE he completed 26 of 47 passes for 291 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

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 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.

He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bryce Young was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Bryce Young 14.3, 0.8 a game between them.

Omarion Hampton finished RB35 and Bryce Young QB19, which are two different ladders.

Omarion Hampton is a running back and Bryce Young a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Omarion Hampton is off in Week 7 and Bryce Young in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.