Should I start Omarion Hampton or Caleb Douglas in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Caleb Douglas: 80 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Omarion Hampton's 37 percent of the snaps and 37 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB25 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-5
- Overall rank
- 70
WR34 · MIA · bye 6
- Market-based projection
- 8.4 pts a game
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omarion Hampton, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 7; 2QB: ADP 22.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 7.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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.
Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 219 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 8
Through Week 8, Omarion Hampton has been on the field for 44 percent of LAC snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against DEN he carried 14 times for 33 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.
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.
Through Week 8, Caleb Douglas has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 70 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 43 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.
Caleb Douglas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Omarion Hampton is a running back and Caleb Douglas a wide receiver, 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 Caleb Douglas in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
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.
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