Head to head · July 2026 draft-day read
Ashton Jeanty or Omarion Hampton?
Ashton Jeanty and Omarion Hampton are a near-tie on 2025 production (12.8 vs 13.3 half-PPR PPG). At matching July 2026 ADP, the pick came down to your roster build, not a market tiebreak.
This week's projections are in the Week 5 start/sit card below. The July 2026 draft-day read that follows is opinion, framed from the cited 2025 data.
This week's start/sit · Half-PPR
Week 5: start Ashton Jeanty or Omarion Hampton?
Start Ashton Jeanty over Omarion Hampton (4.2 pts).
In 2024–25, projection gaps this size went the higher player's way about 68% of the time.
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RB · LV
Ashton Jeanty
15.2 pts projected · range 8.0–24.2
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RB · LAC
Omarion Hampton
11.0 pts projected · range 3.8–19.9
2026 season · the games so far
2026 head-to-head so far
Through Week 4, Ashton Jeanty has out-scored Omarion Hampton by 7.3 PPR points per game, 18.5 to 11.2 (4 games each).
Through Week 4 · nflverse stats as of
| Ashton Jeanty | Metric | Omarion Hampton |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Games | 4 |
| 18.5 | PPR points per game | 11.2 |
| 19.5 | Carries per game | 14.8 |
| 18% | Target share | 4% |
| 77% | Snap share | 50% |
| 13.7 | PPR points per game, last 3 games | 12.1 |
Purple marks the higher figure. Shares are team-relative, averaged per game; snap share counts only games with a published snap count. "Last 3 games" is each player's own last 3 games played. A dash means no 2026 figure. 2026 regular season via nflverse.
Game by game: Ashton Jeanty · Omarion Hampton
Draft-day record · July 2026
The July 2026 draft-day read
This is the July 2026 pre-draft read, kept as published. Every ADP and market figure on this page comes from the Fantasy Football Calculator snapshot of Jul 15, 2026 and is not updated in-season — 2026 drafts are over and ADP has stopped moving. In-season tools
Metric by metric
The tale of the tape
| Ashton Jeanty | Metric | Omarion Hampton |
|---|---|---|
| 13.8 (RB8) | Draft ADP (July 2026) | 16.5 (RB9) |
| 15 | Overall ADP rank (July 2026) | 17 |
| 12.8 | Fantasy points / game | 13.3 |
| +0.1 | Points over expected (FPOE) | — |
| 14.8% | Target share | — |
| 11.8% | Target share, last 3 games (2025) | — |
| 12 | Sleeper search rank (July 2026) | 12 |
Purple marks the better figure. A dash means the engine did not cite that metric for that player. 2025 regular season via nflverse · ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator, Jul 15, 2026 snapshot.
xFP (expected fantasy points) is what a typical player would score with the same targets, carries and field position. FPOE (points over expected) is actual points minus xFP, per game.
The consensus read
July 2026 drafts separated them by a hair — Ashton Jeanty at ADP 13.8, Omarion Hampton at ADP 16.5. On 2025 production it is 12.8 vs 13.3 half-PPR points per game.
What had to be true
This call flipped on beliefs that were checkable at the time. Every belief was tied to a checkpoint: the exact data point that would confirm or deny it, with its value at the time of the July 2026 read.
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Checkpoint · Ashton Jeanty
Target share, last 3 games vs season (2025)
11.8% last 3 vs 14.8% season (2025) · as of July 2026
Strong move if you believed
Ashton Jeanty's late-2025 target dip was matchup noise, not a role change
Poor move if instead
Ashton Jeanty's target share is fading from the season baseline
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Checkpoint · Ashton Jeanty
Points over expected (FPOE) per game, season (2025)
+0.1 pts/gm vs expectation (2025) · as of July 2026
Steady: within half a point a game of expectation, so his usage explains his scoring and this checkpoint does not lean either way.
Sources: Fantasy Football Calculator · Sleeper · nflverse. Every figure here is a value the analysis engine cited from the underlying data. Stats are 2025 regular season via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0); ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot, not updated in-season).
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