Should I start Omarion Hampton or Kaelon Black in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 9:06 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Omarion Hampton: 37 percent of the snaps and 37 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kaelon Black's 30 percent of the snaps and 35 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.
RB43 · LAC · bye 7
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- Market-based projection
- 7.7 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 164
RB45 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 174
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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 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 7; 2QB: ADP 22.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaelon Black, and the board ranks him 174th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 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 Kaelon Black is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 so far
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 7, Kaelon Black has been on the field for 30 percent of SF snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 3 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 6 times for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against WAS he carried 8 times for 34 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ATL he carried 12 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for -4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Kaelon Black is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Omarion Hampton holds the bigger snap share, 44 percent against 30 percent.
This season Omarion Hampton holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 31 percent.
Byes and availability
Omarion Hampton is off in Week 7 and Kaelon Black in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
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