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Heisman / Players / Omarion Hampton /North Carolina

Omarion Hampton

RB · North Carolina · Jr · #28

Limited signal — not enough coverage for a story yet.

NOW IN NFLLos Angeles — drafted 2025, Rd 1, Pick 22, #22 overall

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Los AngelesEntering 2nd NFL season

#22Rd 1 · Pick 22
Los AngelesEntering 2nd NFL season

RB · NORTH CAROLINA · ACC

Omarion Hampton

  • 3
  • #28
  • 6-0 | 220 lb
  • Clayton, NC

CFB Zeitgeist RB Score

Awaiting

Heisman Heat

#2127

<1% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

<1%

TOP RB AWARD

Doak Walker

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 1 · 2-deep

R02 · Deep reserve

Deep reserve. In the program, working up the two-deep.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career arc · Season-by-season Standing

2 seasons on the ladder

Peak: R12 All-American · 2023

2022

North Carolina · RB

2023

North Carolina · RB

R12 · All-American

Elite

NFL Draft 2025 · Rd 1, Pick 22 · #22 overall · Los Angeles

Development Trajectory · rushing yards

2022–2023
4012022
1,5042023

+275%

Up 275% from first season to most-recent.

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★★
#134 national
CFB
College
North Carolina
2022–2023
NFL
NFL Draft
R1 &middot; #22
Los Angeles &middot; 2025

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionRB
Class3
Jersey28
Measurements6-0 | 220 lb
HometownClayton, NC
Primary teamNorth Carolina

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 4-star No. 134 recruit
Composite rating 0.9456 HighSchool
Signed with North Carolina 2022
Origin Cleveland Clayton, NC, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 4-star | 0.9456 No. 134 recruit | HighSchool | North Carolina

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16
Current nowcast#2127Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#2193Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★★☆

to North Carolina

Composite

0.9456

#134 national

NFL Draft

2025 · Rd 1, Pick 22

#22 overall · Los Angeles

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Omarion Hampton

Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal

The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.

Cohort divergence map

Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Omarion Hampton

No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.

Signature Story

Awaiting candidate metric

He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.

Signature Moment

No signature moment on the ledger yet.

Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Scenario Explorer

Available for players with a qualifying signature metric (passing yards, rushing yards, receiving yards, sacks, etc.). The slider projects how a season finishes if the current pace holds.

Why this is more than a rushing profile

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Omarion Hampton is not a one-lane back. The profile is interesting because the workload spills beyond pure rushing volume: 1,504 rushing yards, 29 catches, and 0 return yards for North Carolina. That kind of all-purpose footprint gives the card a much richer story than a basic carry total.

Current place #2127 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load -- Role share still loading
Profile quirk Blue-chip pedigree No. 134 recruit

2023 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

RB season snapshot

2023 season snapshot | final

2023 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Scrimmage yards 1,726 1,504 rush | 222 rec | #4/735 (100th pct)
Rush TD 15 253 carries | #8/739 (99th pct)
Yards/carry 5.9 Per-rush efficiency | #126/735 (83rd pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Workhorse | Efficient runner | Passing-game back against FBS RB peers.

WorkhorseEfficient runnerPassing-game back

2023 Season · Final

2023 season snapshot | final

Rushing

CAR
253 100th
YDS
1,504 100th
YPC
5.9 83rd
TD
15 99th

Receiving

REC
29 94th
YDS
222 93rd
YPR
7.7 59th
TD
1 89th

Game Log

Week-by-week box

No per-game rows for this season yet — the table fills in as box scores arrive.

Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2022North Carolina9-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
2023North Carolina8-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced
SeasonTeam
2023North Carolina2531,5045.915--
2022North Carolina884014.66--
Career2 loaded seasons3411,9055.621--
SeasonTeam
2023North Carolina292227.71--
2022North Carolina6406.71--
Career2 loaded seasons352627.52--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Rushing WEPA

Opponent-adjusted rushing value. It helps separate empty volume from carries that actually move the scoreboard.

Role share

How much of the team's offense flows through this back once rushing work and receiving work are combined.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

Receiving work 29 222 rec yds | #36/552 (94th pct)
Usage -- Role share still loading
Rushing WEPA -- Adjusted value feed still loading
Open full stat explorer
0 metrics visible Showing all metrics
Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Rushing Rushing yards 1,504 #4/735 100th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rush TD 15 #8/739 99th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Rushing Yards / carry 5.9 #126/735 83rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receptions 29 #36/552 94th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving yards 222 #41/548 93rd pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Carries 253 #4/739 100th pct Volumevs FBS RB
Rushing Rushing LONG 68 #68/733 91st pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving LONG 29 #133/540 76th pct Metricvs FBS RB
Receiving Yards / catch 7.7 #224/548 59th pct Efficiencyvs FBS RB
Receiving Receiving TD 1 #60/552 89th pct Scoringvs FBS RB
Ball Security Fumbles lost 2 #205/256 20th pct Turnoversvs FBS RB

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16

Why he’s here

Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.

What moves him up

What moves him down

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

Heisman model tracks the top FBS contenders weekly; this player hasn't entered the watch list yet.

Splits

Per-game splits

Splits fill in once box scores from at least three games land for this season.

Box-score Savant card waits for a season-stat snapshot above the cohort floor. Returns once enough box-score volume lands.

Advanced Savant · RB · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.
Peer Comparator returns once this player clears the Savant metric floor (4+ scored bars).
DNA Match awaiting data — similarity scores compute once season stats clear the volume gate for this position cohort.

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Bill Belichick

Pass share

51.1%

355 pass / 340 run

Plays / game

57.9

12 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

8.4%

262 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.

Coaching Lineage · 2022–2023

1 coach
2022
Mack Brown
North Carolina
2023
Mack Brown
North Carolina

Played his entire career under Mack Brown.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownClayton, NC
Height6'0"
Weight220 lb
Class3
PositionRB
Jersey28

Trophy Case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

6 entries
🥇

ALL-AMERICA

Named All-American (2024)

1 selectors honored him

🥈

ALL-CONFERENCE · 1ST TEAM

All-Conf 1st team (2024)

All-ACC

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

All-America

2 All-America selections

National selector recognition is one of the strongest non-Heisman signals on a player card and should sit near the top of the showcase.

All-Conference

4 all-conference honors

Conference-level recognition helps anchor whether a player is merely statistically loud or actually viewed as elite within his competitive lane.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
2024 All-America (AFCA) all_america North Carolina | AFCA RB
2024 All-ACC all_conference North Carolina | ACC ALL
2024 All-ACC all_conference North Carolina | ACC RB
2024 All-ACC all_conference North Carolina | ACC RUNN
2023 All-ACC all_conference North Carolina | ACC RB
2023 All-America (WCFF) all_america North Carolina | WCFF first | RB

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 North Carolina RB3 #2127 #2193 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | ACC
2023 North Carolina RB3 #110 #152 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | ACC
2022 North Carolina RB3 #348 #385 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | ACC

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2024 North Carolina ACC RB 3 No. 28 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Clayton, NC
2023 North Carolina ACC RB 3 No. 28 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Clayton, NC
2022 North Carolina ACC RB 3 No. 28 | 6-0 | 220 lb | Clayton, NC