Should I start Omarion Hampton or Darren Waller in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 10:11 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Darren Waller: 50 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Omarion Hampton's 36 percent of the snaps and 40 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.

Omarion Hampton

RB39 · LAC · bye 7

2026 vs carries line 2-4

Market-based projection: 7.2 pts a game

Darren Waller

TE25 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 6.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 136

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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 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Omarion Hampton's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 62 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Darren Waller, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

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, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 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 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 9 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Darren Waller 9.9, 5.2 a game between them.

Omarion Hampton finished RB35 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

Omarion Hampton is a running back and Darren Waller a tight end, 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 Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Darren Waller has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.