Fantasy Football Rankings: Javonte Williams Rises, Omarion Hampton Falls In Ian Hartitz's Latest Update
Ian Hartitz has a fresh batch of fantasy football rankings updates, and Joe Metz breaks down the risers and fallers to pay attention to.
With NFL OTAs in full swing, we’re being inundated with highlight clips, camp battle reports, holdouts and more.
While it’s important not to overreact to the clips and news, it’s also important to understand where they should, and will, affect fantasy football rankings.
Ian Hartitz recently updated his 2026 rankings, and a number of things from his update stand out.
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Risers In Ian Hartitz’s Fantasy Football Rankings
Javonte Williams | RB | DAL
The first riser in Ian’s rankings is fresh off a career year with the Cowboys, as he moved Javonte Williams above Omarion Hampton.
Currently ranked as Ian’s RB12, Williams finished as the RB12 in PPR formats last season, averaging 15.2 points per game while accounting for 64% of the Cowboys’ rushing attempts and 77% of the attempts inside the five-yard line. He posted a 78 Utilization Score while also posting a 52% route rate, turning his first season in Dallas into a do-it-all campaign.
With no insurance added behind him in the offseason and a locked-in workhorse role in a high-powered offense, Williams’ fantasy football ADP of RB18 feels like a draft-day value, and Ian upgrading him to his RB12 (RB15 consensus) makes all the sense in the world. Until his ADP catches up, he’s a screaming buy.
Terry McLaurin | WR | WAS
Sure, Terry McLaurin may be on the wrong side of 30, but what does the wideout have to do to earn an ounce of the respect he deserves?!
2025 was a forgettable season for McLaurin, there’s no denying that. That said, his lack of production was more a product of the system than an indication that his best days of individual production are behind him. QB Jayden Daniels was limited to just five games last season, none of which saw the second-year quarterback attempt more than 26 passes. On top of that, he was dealing with more target competition in Deebo Samuel and Zach Ertz.
In Daniels’ healthy 2024 season, we saw McLaurin post career numbers in both receptions (82) and touchdowns (13). With Daniels entering the offseason healthy and both Samuel and Ertz out of the picture, the pass-catching room is McLaurin’s to dominate.
Currently projected for 113 targets, McLaurin is the only player slated for triple-digit targets on the team and carries an Xfinity best projection of 15.9 PPR points per game in our fantasy football projections. With no competition for touches in the receiver room, it makes sense why McLaurin is rising up Hartitz’s rankings as we hope for a flash back to 2024.
Fallers In Ian Hartitz’s Fantasy Football Rankings
Omarion Hampton | RB | LAC
With Javonte Williams rising up to the RB12 in Ian’s rankings, the running back that subsequently got knocked down the rankings is Chargers second-year back, Omarion Hampton (RB13).
There’s a lot of buzz around the Chargers offense going into 2026 with Mike McDaniel at the helm of the offense, and rightfully so. That said, there’s far more workload ambiguity with Hampton than there is with Williams. Once returning from injury last season, Hampton didn’t necessarily run away with the backfield. Kimani Vidal, who’s still in the picture, was heavily involved.
| Weeks 14-18, 2025 | Hampton | Vidal |
|---|---|---|
| Snaps | 50% | 47% |
| Rush Att | 56% | 33% |
| Routes | 40% | 38% |
| Utilization Score | 71 | 41 |
It was a clear ramp-up for Hampton, who saw a season-best Utilization Score of 95 in Week 17, while Vidal’s slowly cratered from Weeks 14 to 18, but he remained involved nonetheless.
The Chargers also added former Raven Keaton Mitchell, who was reportedly a personal favorite of new OC Mike McDaniel in the free-agent market. With all three backs expected to maintain some level of involvement, it’s enough to knock Hampton below someone like Williams, who has a solidified workhorse role. That doesn’t change the fact, though, that Hampton is a great high-upside target early in your drafts.
RB Committees In His Fantasy Football Rankings
Rhamondre Stevenson vs. TreVeyon Henderson
Ian is the only ranker to have Rhamondre Stevenson ranked ahead of TreVeyon Henderson in his rankings at the moment, and he may be onto something.
Sure, we like to get caught up in the hype around young players, especially players who flashed in the way that Henderson did his rookie season. That said, it took Stevenson being sidelined for Henderson to have a viable-enough workload to use in fantasy, and it doesn’t look like Stevenson is going anywhere. He handled 59% of the snaps last season, and while he only accounted for 39% of the rushing attempts (to Henderson’s 45%), he led him in routes (52% to 39%), inside-the-five attempts (52% to 31%) and long-down-and-distance snaps (87% to 33%).
Stevenson was the clear preference in high-leverage situations, and after signing a four-year, $36M deal with the Pats before last season, it’s clear he’s going to be a big part of their offense as long as he can hold on to the ball. Ian’s RB26 in half-PPR formats, Stevenson is one of my favorite RB2 clicks on the board in current best ball drafts.
J.K. Dobbins vs. RJ Harvey
Similarly, Ian is also our only ranker that has J.K. Dobbins ranked ahead of RJ Harvey in the Broncos backfield.
Harvey had a lot of buzz as a Round 2 pick last offseason, but failed to live up to any of the expectations and frankly, was downright disappointing from an efficiency standpoint, ranking second-worst in explosive rush rate and dead last in yards after contact per attempt.
While there was contingent upside in rostering Harvey last season given Dobbins’ history of health struggles, it’s hard to say that the same upside exists in 2026 with the addition of rookie RB Jonah Coleman, who profiles as more of a direct replacement for Dobbins than Harvey does, and even carries three-down upside that could, in the right runout, unseat Harvey, too.
At their current ADPs, I’m taking more stabs on Dobbins than I am Harvey, but it’s actually Coleman who I have the most interest in at cost in this backfield in both best ball and dynasty.
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