Drafted: Round 1, No. 22 overall<\/p>\n
Best-case scenario: The 6-foot, 220-pound bowling ball wins the starting job and never releases his hold on it, running with a punishing style that delights Jim Harbaugh. Hampton is trusted on third downs and in goal-line situations, too — aside from being spelled by a backup on occasion, he stays on the field.<\/p>\n
Worst-case scenario: Hampton ends up in more of a timeshare, with Harbaugh sitting him for significant stretches. The rookie misses out on valuable scoring opportunities, and the Chargers\u2019 reformed O-line never fully jells after the loss of<\/a> left tackle Rashawn Slater<\/a>, taking a big bite out of the offense.<\/p>\n Projected stats: 241 carries for 1,099 yards, 9 TDs; 39 receptions for 331 yards, 2 TDs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drafted: Round 1, No. 22 overall Best-case scenario: The 6-foot, 220-pound bowling ball wins the starting job and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[90,1303,2777,746,127,260,391,590,257,258,113,5362,1162,702,7,345,253,392,842,315,125,3006,13,569,2006,274,1056,393,262,446,280,701,249,55,56,255,6,15,609,288,57,1032,261,250,394,1453,1174,128,772,596,283,589,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-309682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-ashton-jeanty","10":"tag-bhayshul-tuten","11":"tag-cam-skattebo","12":"tag-cam-ward","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-chicago-bears","15":"tag-colston-loveland","16":"tag-dallas-cowboys","17":"tag-denver-broncos","18":"tag-detroit-lions","19":"tag-donte-thornton-jr","20":"tag-elijah-arroyo","21":"tag-emeka-egbuka","22":"tag-football","23":"tag-green-bay-packers","24":"tag-houston-texans","25":"tag-indianapolis-colts","26":"tag-isaac-teslaa","27":"tag-jack-bech","28":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","29":"tag-jacory-croskey-merritt","30":"tag-jaxson-dart","31":"tag-jayden-higgins","32":"tag-jaydon-blue","33":"tag-kaleb-johnson","34":"tag-kyle-williams","35":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","36":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","37":"tag-luther-burden-iii","38":"tag-mason-taylor","39":"tag-matthew-golden","40":"tag-new-england-patriots","41":"tag-new-orleans-saints","42":"tag-new-york-giants","43":"tag-new-york-jets","44":"tag-nfl","45":"tag-nfl-draft","46":"tag-no-minute","47":"tag-omarion-hampton","48":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","49":"tag-rj-harvey","50":"tag-seattle-seahawks","51":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","52":"tag-tennessee-titans","53":"tag-tetairoa-mcmillan","54":"tag-tory-horton","55":"tag-travis-hunter","56":"tag-tre-harris","57":"tag-treveyon-henderson","58":"tag-tyler-shough","59":"tag-tyler-warren","60":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}