Colby Parkinson or Omarion Hampton: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colby Parkinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 120th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 1.9 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.

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, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 2.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 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.

Colby Parkinson was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Colby Parkinson 8.7, 6.4 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Omarion Hampton RB35, which are two different ladders.

Colby Parkinson is a tight end and Omarion Hampton a running back, 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. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

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.