Should I start Marvin Harrison Jr. or Omarion Hampton in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 2:21 PM 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 Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets. 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.
WR20 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market-based projection
- 6.8 pts a game
RB13 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 2-5
- Overall rank
- 40
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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 Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Omarion Hampton, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 7; 2QB: ADP 22.
The market-based projections
Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Omarion Hampton is 7.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 4 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.
Omarion Hampton's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.
He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 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.
Marvin Harrison Jr. was available for 3 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Marvin Harrison Jr. 10.7, 4.4 a game between them.
Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR49 and Omarion Hampton RB35, which are two different ladders.
Marvin Harrison Jr. is a wide receiver 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
Marvin Harrison Jr. is off in Week 8 and Omarion Hampton in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Omarion Hampton has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Should I drop Omarion Hampton?
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