{"id":809758,"date":"2026-08-11T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809758\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:16:14","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-well-kinda-play-hot-hand-at-running-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809758\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel: We&#8217;ll kinda play hot hand at running back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chargers running back Omarion Hampton thinks the arrival of offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel is going to be a good thing for the team\u2019s running backs and McDaniel\u2019s plans for the position came up during <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gfRIrR8GNIE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a press conference<\/a> on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>McDaniel was asked if he plans to use Hampton as a workhorse back in the 2025 first-round pick\u2019s second NFL season. McDaniel said \u201cthere\u2019s going to be opportunities for him to have a ton of touches,\u201d but that he also plans to use Keaton Mitchell and Kimani Vidal on a weekly basis and that the usage will be dictated on the fly rather than scripted in advance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s good news and bad news, fantasy owners,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cGood news is I see all three of those guys producing at a very high level. The bad news is I can\u2019t tell you which games those are. . . . Kinda play hot hand once you\u2019re into games. Specifically, I\u2019ll use all three of those guys probably every game. The relative ratio that will be based on opponent and what we\u2019re asking the guys to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news might not be good for anyone drafting their fantasy teams, but a robust run game will be good for the Chargers and quarterback Justin Herbert regardless of who is spearheading the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chargers running back Omarion Hampton thinks the arrival of offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel is going to be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-809758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}