Omarion Hampton or Jakobi Meyers: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM ET
Omarion Hampton is the start on the latest market price, 10.3 points to Jakobi Meyers's 9.5. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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RB26 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 63
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
WR29 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Market price
- 9.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size218 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Omarion Hampton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 7; 2QB: ADP 24.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jakobi Meyers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Omarion Hampton at 10.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 16 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Jakobi Meyers at 9.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.
Omarion Hampton's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Omarion Hampton has been on the field for 49 percent of LAC snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 37 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 3.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against LV he carried 23 times for 94 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Through Week 4, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 79 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 11 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.
In Week 2 against DEN he caught 1 of 1 target for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 64 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 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 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.
He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jakobi Meyers was available for 7 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 4.1 a game between them.
Omarion Hampton finished RB35 and Jakobi Meyers WR32, which are two different ladders.
Omarion Hampton is a running back and Jakobi Meyers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
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.
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