Should I start Michael Penix Jr. or Omarion Hampton in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Michael Penix Jr.'s market-based projection is 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Omarion Hampton's market-based projection is 7.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Penix Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Omarion Hampton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Michael Penix Jr. has been on the field for 98 percent of ATL snaps, dropped back 83 times and thrown 6.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 8 of 83 dropbacks and scrambled 2 times.

In Week 3 against GB he completed 18 of 25 passes for 256 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.

In Week 4 against NO he completed 15 of 20 passes for 223 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against BAL he completed 19 of 32 passes for 240 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

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 Michael Penix Jr. played 9 games and scored 123.3 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB33.

He threw for 1982 yards on 276 attempts with 9 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 70 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 30.7 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 93 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.

Both were available for 9 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Omarion Hampton scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Michael Penix Jr. 13.7, 1.4 a game between them.

Michael Penix Jr. finished QB33 and Omarion Hampton RB35, which are two different ladders.

Michael Penix Jr. is a quarterback 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

Michael Penix Jr. is off in Week 11 and Omarion Hampton in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.3 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.