{"id":456333,"date":"2026-09-07T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456333\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:58:09","slug":"why-cbs-sports-predicts-omarion-hampton-will-win-nfl-rushing-title-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456333\/","title":{"rendered":"Why CBS Sports Predicts Omarion Hampton Will Win NFL Rushing Title in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hampton rushed for 545 yards and four touchdowns in nine games as a rookie as he battled a pair of ankle injuries during the season. He also added 192 receiving yards and a touchdown in nine total games.<\/p>\n<p>The running back has attacked his <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/omarion-hampton-fantasy-mike-mcdaniel-offense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first full offseason<\/a> in the new offense in a positive way as he&#8217;s garnered praise from the offensive playcaller.<\/p>\n<p>At 6-foot and 220 pounds and with his explosiveness, there&#8217;s plenty of hype on what Hampton will be able to do in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For him and his skillset, no one wants to tackle that guy, that is a massive human moving very fast,&#8221; McDaniel said earlier in the offseason about Hampton. &#8220;The less we can get him to stop his feet and do what we call slash and pick edges of defenders and shoulder punch him, the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He later added: &#8220;I&#8217;m very confident, it&#8217;s very exciting what he&#8217;s doing each and every day because it&#8217;s all about stacking the experience, stacking the reps and improving. He&#8217;s doing that each practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampton rushed for 545 yards and four touchdowns in nine games as a rookie as he battled a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7710,128495,7708,7709,48,52,51,47,50,49,11476],"class_list":["post-456333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-app-homepage","tag-articles-bolts-buzz","tag-homepage-cp","tag-homepage-headlines","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-omarion-hampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}