{"id":63643,"date":"2025-05-20T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/63643\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:45:13","slug":"chargers-sign-draft-pick-omarion-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/63643\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers sign draft pick Omarion Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Chargers signed running back Omarion Hampton on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The team selected him 22nd overall in last month\u2019s NFL draft, making him the highest pick at his position out of North Carolina in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He ranked No. 2 in the nation over his final two years with 3,164 yards rushing, earning Associated Press All-America second team and first-team All-Atlantic Coast honors each season.<\/p>\n<p>Hampton had 19 games with 100 yards rushing, the third-most in the nation over his three-year career.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Chargers signed running back Omarion Hampton on Monday. The team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6,941,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-63643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangeleschargers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-north-carolina","16":"tag-omarion-hampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114537400076555779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643","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=63643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}