{"id":764388,"date":"2026-02-20T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/764388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:15:38","slug":"why-nfl-analysts-believe-omarion-hampton-will-have-breakout-year-with-mike-mcdaniels-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/764388\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NFL Analysts Believe Omarion Hampton Will Have Breakout Year With Mike McDaniel’s Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no question the Chargers have one of the NFL’s most innovative offensive minds in their building in Mike McDaniel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new offensive coordinator’s resum\u00e9 runs long, including a number of top finishes over the years as playcaller.<\/p>\n

Now calling an offense with a quarterback like Justin Herbert<\/a> could only spell good things for the Chargers offense and the players around them.<\/p>\n

“The whole offense is going to benefit because of it,” NFL Network’s Brian Baldinger said.<\/p>\n

But which skill players in particular could flourish in this new system?<\/p>\n

Chargers.com posed the question to a number of NFL experts and analysts at Radio Row in the lead up to Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n

A number of different Chargers skill players were named, but there was an overwhelming consensus on which player is poised for a breakout season in McDaniel’s offense.<\/p>\n

“Omarion Hampton,” ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler told Chargers.com.<\/p>\n

“Omarion Hampton, easy,” The Athletic’s Dave Helman continued.<\/p>\n

“Hampton is going to go absolutely hog-wild,” ESPN’s Ben Solak added.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Chargers first-round pick<\/a> flashed during his rookie season, rushing for 545 yards and four touchdowns to go along with 192 receiving yards and a touchdown in nine games.<\/p>\n

He was a workhorse back for a room that battled some attrition when he was on the field, as he missed some time with an ankle injury in the middle of the season.<\/p>\n

Hampton displayed the same physicality and explosiveness he did in college, however, which is one of the things Solak was greatly impressed with.<\/p>\n

“I thought he showed a really nice job catching the football, he’s an unbelievable tackle breaker, in space especially, when they started getting him on these screens and out there,” Solak said about Hampton. “His ability to let contact bounce off of him is really impressive.”<\/p>\n

Add in McDaniel’s track record<\/a> when it comes to his run games and what he’s able to do on the ground, Hampton was an easy choice for Fowler as well.<\/p>\n

“He had that ankle issue during the year and was kind of beat up, but I would like to see what he could do with a healthy year,” Fowler said. “I like that group for next year with McDaniel, who did a lot with De’Von Achane and the backs in Miami. I think you’ll see some of the same.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s no question the Chargers have one of the NFL’s most innovative offensive minds in their building in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[98782,37,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,4836,6,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-764388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-2026-offseason-editorial","9":"tag-app-homepage","10":"tag-chargers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-homepage-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleschargers","18":"tag-mike-mcdaniel","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-omarion-hampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116102674752331497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764388","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=764388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}