2025 Scouting Report: Omarion Hampton, North Carolina
Bio:
Height: 6’0
Weight: 221
Career Stats: 38 games; 622 carries, 3,565 yards, 36 TDs; 73 receptions, 635 yards, 4 TDs
2024 Stats: 12 games; 281 carries (6th), 1,660 yards (2nd), 13 TDs (T-28th), 5.9 ypc (39th); 38 receptions, 373 yards, 2 TDs
After scouting Hampton, I’m once again realizing what I had observed last off-season; there has been so much talent flooding the NFL in recent years. By 2026/2027, every team will have 2-3 legit starting RBs, 4-5 WRs that would be WR1 or high-end WR2s in 2023, and the amount of QB talent in the league is so high and top-heavy that people think every position is improving and evolving except for QB. If you take the 33rd best player from any position and transplant them into 2015, most of them would be the best in the league, and all of them would be top 5 except QB, but they would be fringe top-10.
Objection, testifying.
I hope I used to that right I’m not a lawyer. Essentially, Hampton is a legit prospect and should be a starter, it just depends on where he lands.
Hampton is a big back at around 220 pounds (221 at the Combine) and is very proficient between the tackles. Hampton isn’t just your typical bowling-ball powerback either; he plays shiftier than you’d expect, and though he didn’t have a great shuttle time (4.40s) at the combine, I’m not worried. What we see on the field/in the film is more important than running around half-naked. I don’t have much to say about Hampton, he’s a good running back that can play any role you ask of him.
Omarion didn’t play a lot of high-end competition, and when he did, he struggled, but how much of that is on him and how much of that is the quality of an SEC D-line against an ACC O-line?
The Data on Omarion Hampton:
Led the ACC in rushing yards in 2023 and 2024, but he never won any major awards. In out-of-conference play against the SEC, Big 10, and Big 12, Hampton averaged 68.5 rushing yards and 0.75 TDs per game, with a measly 3.5 ypc in 4 matchups.
| PowerRtg | AgilityRtg | RecRtg | H | W | Last | First | Team | adjYds/Att | adjAtt/TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.068 | 4.374 | 8.592 | 72 | 221 | Hampton | Omarion | North Carolina | 5.9 | 18.6 |
PowerRtg = Combination of rushing stats, adjusted stats, size, and strength of schedule.
AgilityRtg = Combination of rushing and receiving stats, adjusted stats, size, and strength of schedule.
RecRtg = Combination of receiving stats, adjusted stats, and strength of schedule.
adj. = stats weighted against strength of schedule.
Draft Outlook:
Hampton is tracking as the #2 RB in the class with a second-round draft grade and is starting to gain some steam as a late first-round pick as we get closer and closer to April. There’s so much talent in this class that I’d pass on Hampton as a first or second-round pick and look for value on someone early day 3. The league has so much talent now, so why pay 10 times the amount of money for a nearly identical player?
Career Outlook:
Completely dependent on what team he is drafted by, I don’t believe Hampton is a slam dunk to be a feature back like Jeanty is. All of the top backs are team/system/blocking-dependent, except for Jeanty.
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