{"id":84440,"date":"2025-05-28T04:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84440\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T04:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:49:12","slug":"espn-analyst-makes-bold-prediction-for-omarion-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84440\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN analyst makes bold prediction for Omarion Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expectations are high for Omarion Hampton heading into his rookie season. The former North Carolina product was the second running back selected behind Ashton Jeanty, who was taken by the Raiders<\/a> with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

While Jeanty was the top back in this year’s class, some believe Hampton will have a more productive season in Year 1, including ESPN’s Benjamin Solak, who is predicting Hampton to win the Offensive Rookie of the Year award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Omarion Hampton\u00a0will win Offensive Rookie of the Year. I think he will quickly out-touch\u00a0Najee Harris, and I think the Chargers<\/a> want to go back to a more run-heavy approach after turning pass-heavy out of necessity late last season. He’ll outproduce fellow first-rounder\u00a0Ashton Jeanty, too. I see a 1,200-rushing-yard season incoming,” Solak wrote.<\/p>\n

Hampton’s current odds to win OROY are +1000, which is tied with Jaguars WR\/CB Travis Hunter and Saints<\/a> QB Tyler Shough, according to DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a>. The only two players ahead of Hampton are Jeanty (+250) and Titans<\/a> QB Cam Ward (+350).<\/p>\n

Hampton will share the backfield with veteran Najee Harris, but he should still have a sizeable role in the offense. Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman are going to emphasize running the football. And given his talent, a system tailored his skill set and an improved offensive line, Hampton could make some serious noise in his rookie season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expectations are high for Omarion Hampton heading into his rookie season. The former North Carolina product was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[247,265,357,240,1107,235,241,1109,12,388,864,9279,7,1436,3519,1389,123,379,1435,1012,1066,1159,523,393,239,1014,262,2444,2443,6988,4125,248,267,206,55,88,6,1587,941,676,245,537,530,525,397,9,1115,266,526,394,527,2015,128,524,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-84440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-and","11":"tag-angeles","12":"tag-betting","13":"tag-carolina","14":"tag-chargers","15":"tag-disclaimer","16":"tag-espn","17":"tag-espn-inc","18":"tag-exclude","19":"tag-exclude-sports-betting","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-harbaugh","22":"tag-harris","23":"tag-herbert","24":"tag-hunter","25":"tag-inc","26":"tag-jim","27":"tag-jim-harbaugh","28":"tag-justin","29":"tag-justin-herbert","30":"tag-las","31":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","32":"tag-los","33":"tag-los-angeles","34":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","35":"tag-losangeles","36":"tag-losangeleschargers","37":"tag-najee","38":"tag-najee-harris","39":"tag-national","40":"tag-national-sports","41":"tag-new","42":"tag-new-orleans-saints","43":"tag-news","44":"tag-nfl","45":"tag-north","46":"tag-north-carolina","47":"tag-orleans","48":"tag-overall","49":"tag-overall-positive","50":"tag-positive","51":"tag-raiders","52":"tag-saints","53":"tag-sports","54":"tag-sports-betting-widget-and-disclaimer","55":"tag-sports-news","56":"tag-tennessee","57":"tag-tennessee-titans","58":"tag-titans","59":"tag-travis","60":"tag-travis-hunter","61":"tag-vegas","62":"tag-widget"},"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\/84440","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=84440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}