The 2025 NFL season is only about 20 days into training camp, and no actual football games have been played at the time this piece is written. But that does not mean the steady stream of news, highlights, coachspeak, and injuries isn’t coming at fantasy football managers at full force. Even with the regular season still five weeks away, training camp news can have huge impacts on where we draft certain players.
Already, various injuries, depth chart battles, and off-field issues are impacting where certain players are taken in 2025 fantasy football drafts. Preseason action is right around the corner and should give another jolt of news into the draft preparation as well. There is a lot that can happen between now and when the season kicks off on September 4.
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NFL Training Camp Fantasy Football Risers
This regular piece will look at players who are rising or falling in consensus ADP based on recent news out of team camps. FantasyPros is here to help you sort through the noise to determine what is actionable and what is not as we roll towards the 2025 NFL season and fantasy football drafts.
Training Camp Risers
Omarion Hampton (RB – LAC)
Looking at the situation that rookie Omarion Hampton is walking into, it’s hard not to see why he is flying up draft boards as we approach August. Mike Williams retired. Quentin Johnston drops everything and is inconsistent. The Los Angeles Chargers have two tight ends who are close to being eligible for AARP. Their offseason running back addition nearly blew out his eye with 4th of July fireworks. Opposite Ladd McConkey and Tre’ Harris, who else will really challenge Omarion Hampton for touches?
Hampton was a beast at the University of North Carolina, rushing for more than 1,500 yards in back-to-back seasons, and scoring 33 total touchdowns in 2023-2024. In addition, Hampton can play the role of passing-down back. He caught 67 balls for almost 600 yards in that same timeframe, and saw an 11% target share in 2024.
Hampton just turned 22 years old and was over the 90th percentile in speed score and burst score at the NFL Combine. With first-round draft capital as the wind at his back, Hampton looks poised to take over as the primary rusher in Los Angeles and never look back.
Emeka Egbuka (WR – TB)
Rookies often see the largest variance in their ADP throughout their first offseason because we don’t know exactly what their role will be, or what coaches are thinking about them in camp. In the case of Emeka Egbuka, he comes into an excellent offensive environment in Tampa Bay, but also to a wide receiver room that includes Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and Jalen McMillan. Add in one of the best young running backs in football in Bucky Irving, and there is a lot of competition for just one football.
However, the latest news on Chris Godwin is causing Egbuka’s arrow to point up. Chris Godwin, who destroyed his ankle in an injury last season, apparently had a second, undisclosed procedure on his foot this offseason and is not ready to suit up in camp. There is hope he will be ready for Week 1, but it’s speculation right now.
Meanwhile, it appears Godwin has taken Egbuka under his wing and is showing him how to be a pro in these first few weeks of camp. The Buccanneers didn’t spend the 19th overall pick on a player who isn’t going to see the field, and this Godwin uncertainty means Egbuka may get a lot of snaps in the early part of the season.
Mark Andrews (TE – BAL)
Mark Andrews had a wild 2024, starting with two goose eggs to open the season and then finishing with a flourish, including 11 touchdowns over the final 13 weeks of the season. However, Isaiah Likely was still set to remain the thorn in his side heading into 2025. That might have changed now that Likely has broken a bone in his foot and will miss all of training camp.
How and when Likely is deployed after recovering from this injury remains to be seen. In the meantime, Lamar Jackson and Co. get valuable reps with his favorite red zone target. Andrews was third among tight ends with nine deep targets and eighth with 15 red zone targets in 2024.
Andrews is currently going off the board as the TE7 in drafts. With some training camp buzz, there is a decent chance he passes Travis Kelce and is the TE6 before the dust settles on draft season.
