Hampton
RB · LAC vs SEA
Proj pts
12.1pts
market
Harvey
RB · DEN vs SF
Proj pts
11.8pts
market
Omarion Hampton or RJ Harvey: who should I start in Week 4?
Start Omarion Hampton. Bench RJ Harvey. Omarion Hampton leads at 12.1. RJ Harvey is the first one out, 0.3 short.
Crowd: started Hampton 74% · Harvey 30%
Highlights
Pros
- High floor11.9 floor
Cons
- Committee back19% of touches
- Low team total17.8 team total
Pros
- Run-funnel matchupRun-funnel vs RB
- Spike upside21.7 ceiling
- Big-play upside31% boom weeks
Cons
- Committee back23% of touches
- Negative game scriptTrailing
Some recent form, opportunity and matchup figures still lean on the 2025 season (not enough games played this season yet).
Week 4 · Updated Tue 6:00 AM ET
Why Omarion Hampton
Start Omarion Hampton — projects 12.1, a tough matchup vs SEA, but the role is cooling.
Omarion Hampton projects 12.1 points on a 11.9–23.2 range. The matchup grades as tough against SEA. Usage: carries / game at 13.8. Net: Omarion Hampton is start this week.
Working for Hampton: High floor (11.9 floor).
Working against Hampton: Committee back (19% of touches), Low team total (17.8 team total).
Where Hampton leads the head-to-head: Projection (12.1 vs 11.8); Floor (11.9 vs 8.1); Ceiling (23.2 vs 21.7); Opportunity score (14.4 vs 10.4); Last 3 avg (10.5 vs 7.7); Last 5 avg (13.6 vs 12.8); Consistency (52% vs 40%); Bust rate (11% vs 25%); Carries / game (13.8 vs 8.6); Touches / game (17.3 vs 11.4); Target share (12% vs 10%); Opportunity score (exp pts) (14.4 vs 10.4); Yards per carry (4.4 vs 3.7); Snap share (63% vs 42%).
Why RJ Harvey
Sit RJ Harvey — projects 11.8, a run-funnel matchup vs SF, but the role is cooling.
RJ Harvey projects 11.8 points on a 8.1–21.7 range. The matchup grades as run-funnel against SF. Usage: carries / game at 8.6. Net: RJ Harvey is a bench this week.
Working for Harvey: Run-funnel matchup (Run-funnel vs RB), Spike upside (21.7 ceiling), Big-play upside (31% boom weeks).
Working against Harvey: Committee back (23% of touches), Negative game script (Trailing).
Where Harvey leads the head-to-head: Touch share (23% vs 19%); Matchup grade (recency weighted) (B+ vs D); Implied team total (22.3 vs 17.8); vs season (-0.1 vs -2.2); Boom rate (31% vs 22%); Goal line carries (10 vs 8); Red zone carries (31 vs 26); Grade vs RB (recency weighted) (B+ vs D); Implied total (22.3 vs 17.8).
Recent form
Omarion Hampton's last 5 games: PPR points 16.5, 20, 8.3, 17.5, 5.6 (oldest to newest).
RJ Harvey's last 5 games: PPR points 22.1, 18.6, 4.3, 8.1, 10.7 (oldest to newest).
Hampton has already beaten Harvey's 11.8 projection in 3 of his 5; Harvey has beaten Hampton's 12.1 in 2 of his 5.
At least 1 of these 5 were played before the 2026 season — the card does not date them.
Matchup
Omarion Hampton (LAC) faces SEA, kickoff Sun 4:25 PM ET. The matchup is rated tough. Betting line: implied team total 17.8, spread +7.0.
RJ Harvey (DEN) faces SF, kickoff Sun 4:25 PM ET. The matchup is rated run-funnel. Betting line: implied team total 22.3, spread +3.0.
What flips it
Hampton's edge is 0.3 points (12.1 to 11.8). Harvey's ceiling (21.7) clears Hampton's projection, so a big game from Harvey flips it. Confidence in the call: lower.
How to read these numbers
- Confidence in the call
- How clear-cut this start/sit call is — how decisively the player beats the alternative he competes with (for a starter, the best player on your bench; for a bench player, the last one in your lineup), on both projected points and the overlap of their likely ranges. A clear play reads high; a genuine toss-up reads lower. It rates the decision, not the player’s own volatility, and is not a measured accuracy rate.
- Floor
- The 20th percentile of the same simulated distribution.
- Ceiling
- The 90th percentile of the same simulated distribution.
- Opportunity score
- Expected points from projected volume alone, before any efficiency of this player’s own: each projected touch and target valued at the positional average for the scoring format.
- Matchup grade
- The opponent’s points allowed to this position per game, weighted toward recent games, then graded on a curve across the 32 defenses.
- Implied team total
- The points the betting market expects this team to score, derived from the game total and the spread. Market-derived, not modelled by Nuvela.
- Trend
- The direction of his scoring across the trailing window, classified as heating, steady or cooling.
- Touch share trend
- The same classification, measured on his share of team touches rather than on his points.
- Consistency
- The share of his games that landed within a set band of his own per-game average.
- Boom rate
- The share of his games that finished inside the top 12 scorers at his position for that week.
- Bust rate
- The share of his games that came in under half of what he was projected for that week.
- Vacated touches
- Carries and targets belonging to team-mates who are ruled out, on IR, or listed as non-participants for this week, taken at their recent per-game rate.
- Defense funnel
- Whether the opponent’s rush defense and pass defense are far enough apart to push offenses one way. A gap inside the band reads Neutral.
- Game script projection
- The expected state of the game for his team — favoured, level or trailing — taken from the closing spread.
More start/sit comparisons from this week's PPR projections. Open a pair for the call and the reasoning.