Omarion Hampton 2025 Season in Review

Omarion Hampton finished his rookie year as the number 35 running back in total PPR scoring — and the number 13 running back in PPR per game. That gap tells you everything about Hampton's 2025. When he was on the field, he produced like a back you actively wanted in your lineup. He only gave you nine games of it. The Chargers used him as a workhorse-in-training, splitting the backfield with Kimani Vidal but trusting Hampton with the high-leverage carries, the goal-line work, and a real role in the passing game. Four rushing touchdowns and a receiving score in nine games is a touchdown rate that travels. The story of his season is availability — when Hampton suited up, the Chargers had a running back; when he didn't, they had a committee.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because the efficiency profile is genuinely impressive for a rookie. Hampton carried it 124 times for 545 yards — a clean 4.4 a pop — and added 32 catches on 35 targets for 192 yards. The headline: plus 81.6 rushing yards over expected, which works out to plus 0.7 per attempt, the 15th-best mark among qualified runners. He did that while facing a stacked box on roughly 26 percent of his carries, so this wasn't padded against light fronts. He averaged 15.1 PPR points per game, and the game log backs up the per-game rank — he cleared 13 PPR points in six of his nine outings, with two smash games above 24 and only two duds under 8. That's a steady-floor profile with real ceiling games mixed in — exactly the shape of a back you draft early. The receiving role is what lifts him from a touchdown-dependent rusher into a weekly asset. A 12 percent target share for a running back is meaningful volume.

The play that captures Hampton's rookie year came in Week 4 at the Giants, Chargers trailing 21 to 18 in the third quarter. First and ten from the Giants' 46. Hampton took the handoff, hit the right tackle gap, and ran it 54 yards to the house. The defining explosive of his season — plus 4.7 expected points added on a single touch — and it came in the same game where he posted 128 rushing yards, a touchdown, and 27.5 PPR points. That's the version of Hampton the data keeps pointing at: a back who creates yards on his own, finishes in the end zone, and tilts a fantasy week when he gets the volume.