Will Omarion Hampton deliver top-8 fantasy value?
Yahoo Fantasy's Josh Norris and Joel Smyth look at a potential 2-for-1 trade for the Chargers top running back who is consistently being drafted in the top of the second round.
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This one's from Zan.
"I know at least Joel is pretty high on Omarion Hampton.
The question is, how high?
Is he worth paying a premium for, say, Travis Etienne and Pickens in two-for-ones?"
I'm assuming this is a keeper or a dynasty league, Joel, that he's talking about.
So first give me your take on Hampton, and then we'll get into, like, the Etienne plus Pickens trade offer here too.
Yeah, I think I'm higher on Hampton than you are from what I know.
I do love him.
I think he is an amazing first or end of the Or not end of the first.
Early second, even though I have him ranked- Yep as the end of the first.
You can get him every single time basically at the first pick of the second round.
In terms of a two-for-one trade, in redraft I wouldn't do this because you don't want to thin out your roster before it's already gonna be thinned out naturally with injuries and busts that we don't expect.
So I don't trade, like trading two top players for one if it's not like a top three running back.
And since we're not getting Bijan- Right or Gibbs here, I wouldn't like that for redraft leagues.
In dynasty or in keeper, that's another question.
I like Hampton a lot in dynasty leagues.
I don't know if Etienne and Pickens would be there for me yet.
I still think- Yep I lean Pickens and Etienne in dynasty leagues.
Mm-hmm.
But I think there's a big gap between Etienne and Hampton for a dynasty.
I'm sure we'll answer a bunch of redraft trade questions as the season goes along.
Just an overall sentiment that I have is I love two-for-ones and being on the two side when it's a player that you didn't draft highly or you picked up on the waiver wire that is kind of over-performing expectation, right?
Mm-hmm.
And it's this belief that he's going to do that for the entire season or, like, this is the moment of the year that he's doing quite well, and then you can package that for another player that's consistent, for maybe one that has disappointed the player based on where they, you know, were selected in their draft.
Does that make sense, Joel?
Like, I, I don't like making two-for-ones ahead of the season, because these are- Yeah you know, two huge assets that you drafted, you know, in the top four or five rounds, and trading that for, to me, like the 15th overall player, in drafts heading into the season.
Yeah, yeah.
I think you can wait.
And especially if you are making these picks.
Like, there's a reason you drafted Etienne and Pickens in the first place.
If you think they're gonna be good- Right you might as well let that value increase a little bit into the season, and then when you know how your rosters look and how much depth you have, then you can make those type of trades.
Yeah.
Hampton is one of those players to me where while I might have a few concerns about his individual profile being, like, worth the, you know, a, a top eight running back in the league, I love the situation just in terms of being attached to Mike McDaniel.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm almost putting those individual thoughts aside and just drafting the environment and then drafting the system.
Even The Athletic's Daniel Popper, who does a fantastic job, said, "This is not confusing to me.
It's not that complicated.
Omarion Hampton is really, really, really good at football.
I wouldn't overthink it here from a fantasy perspective.
Omarion Hampton is the guy," which maybe he's talking to people that continuously hype up Keaton Mitchell over and over and over again.
I don't know if I would use really three times when talking about Omarion Hampton.
But I get the overall sentiment of what Daniel Popper is doing here just again from an environmental standpoint, you know, with Mike McDaniel.
The running backs underneath him in Miami, 4.7 yards per carry, fifth in success rate, first in explosive rate.
And we know that if Hampton's given, you know, a lane and not contacted until beyond the line of scrimmage, he averaged 7.4 yards per carry, which is seventh best among 49 running backs in the league last year.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, and with Mitchell, he's missed six straight practices now too, so I feel like that's- Yep factoring in a little bit, especially, like, early on in the season if Hampton can just establish himself as that clear number one.
