Should I start Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Omarion Hampton in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 1:36 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Omarion Hampton: 38 percent of the snaps and 34 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 24 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB19 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 3-3
- Overall rank
- 50
RB44 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-4
- Overall rank
- 146
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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 Chris Rodriguez Jr., and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omarion Hampton, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 7; 2QB: ADP 22.
The market-based projections
The market has Chris Rodriguez Jr. at 7.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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.
The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Chris Rodriguez Jr. has been on the field for 25 percent of JAX snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 4 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.
In Week 4 against CIN he carried 6 times for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against PHI he carried 2 times for 5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he carried 11 times for 55 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Omarion Hampton has been on the field for 46 percent of LAC snaps, taken 47 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
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.
In Week 6 against KC he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Chris Rodriguez Jr. played 13 games and scored 92.0 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing RB51.
He carried 112 times for 500 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 more yards.
That came to 8.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 30 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.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Chris Rodriguez Jr. 7.1, 8.0 a game between them.
Chris Rodriguez Jr. finished RB51 that year and Omarion Hampton RB35.
Omarion Hampton had 12 more carries than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 124 to 112.
Omarion Hampton had 29 more catches than Chris Rodriguez Jr., 32 to 3.
This season Omarion Hampton holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 25 percent.
This season Omarion Hampton holds the bigger share of the carries, 47 percent against 24 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Should I drop Omarion Hampton?
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