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Who is the season's most disappointing player?

ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly from training camp through Super Bowl with answers to a new question being posted Thursday morning. How the guest experts responded when we asked them: Who is the season's most disappointing player?

DAVID DOREY

Though there is a large universe of qualified candidates, it has to be DeMarco Murray. He was drafted in the first round at times and not only has his production never warranted a high draft pick, but he does just enough to make you believe and then flops. So you do not feel right about leaving him on the bench but when you play him, you almost always get back a bad result.

Dorey is the co-founder and lead NFL analyst for The Huddle and author of Fantasy Football: The Next Level. He has projected and predicted every NFL game and player performance since 1997 and has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, radio and television.

ALAN SATTERLEE

It's hard not to go with Eddie Lacy who ranked 1.04 in average draft position. I got some wrong this year, but I was steadfast that the right strategy was to take Antonio Brown, Julio Jones or Odell Beckham Jr. this year in the first round. You can find running backs (even recently, Buck Allen and Thomas Rawls make that point). To me personally, it's Andrew Luck. I had Luck blinders on. I saw all upside, penciling him for a magical season and perhaps approaching 5,000 yards and 50 TDs. Even before his injury, Luck was wildly disappointing. In weeks 1-3 he was QB15, then missed two games, although he was QB4 in weeks 6-9. I still feel like you sort of could see Eddie Lacy coming. He started off very slow last year and he has and will continue to have weight issues so for me personally, again it is Luck.

Satterlee is a co-owner and senior writer for Dynasty Football Warehouse. DFW is comprehensive site covering dynasty, redraft, IDP and Daily formats. DFW has a large writing crew with many people from the DFW community contributing to the insights and discussion. Alan is also the Fantasy Football Insider for the Charlotte Observer and is syndicated in a few other newspapers in the southeast.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

This is an easy one. C.J. Anderson has failed to live up to his top-10 player ranking by most this season. He's been so disappointing he's not even the starter any longer for the Broncos. And just when it appeared he's back on track, he injures his ankle on Sunday. The only game he produced big numbers in was the Patriots game, when it's likely that his owners did not start him.

Nazarek is the CEO of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc. His company offers a preseason draft guide, customizable cheat sheets, a multi-use fantasy drafting program including auction values, weekly in-season fantasy newsletters, injury reports and free NFL news (updated daily) at its web site. He has been playing fantasy football since 1988 and is a four-peat champion of the SI.com Experts Fantasy League, a nationally published writer in several fantasy magazines and a former columnist for SI.com. For more info go to www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

IAN ALLAN

For me, a couple of wide receivers come to mind, Davante Adams and Brandon LaFell. These guys are in great offenses working with two of the best quarterbacks in the league. But they haven’t been able to get open often enough, and they haven’t been able to complete enough of the contested catches. LaFell hasn’t caught a touchdown all year, which is pretty remarkable for a wide receiver in that offense.

Allan is the senior writer for Fantasy Football Index. He's been in that role since 1987, generating most of the player rankings and analysis for that publication. His work can be seen in Fantasy Football Index magazine, and also at www.fantasyindex.com.

SAM HENDRICKS

Throw away the obvious injury disasters -- Jamaal Charles, Le'Veon Bell, Arian Foster, Marshawn Lynch, Andrew Luck and Jimmy Graham from the first round -- the question is who has not been injured and just plain sucks? Alfred Morris and Melvin Gordon that's who. But there is another who should be considered, someone who went even earlier in drafts this year. A third-rounder that none can argue did not let everyone who drafted him down. That player is Joseph Randle. What a huge, steaming pile of disappointment.

Hendricks is the author of Fantasy Football Guidebook, Fantasy Football Tips and Fantasy Football Basics, all available at ExtraPointPress.com, at all major bookstores, and at Amazon and BN.com. He is a 20-plus year fantasy football veteran who regularly participates in the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and finished 7th and 16th overall in the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC). He won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

JAY HARDING

Undoubtedly for me it's Matt Ryan​, 13 weeks and only 17 TDs to go with his 13 interceptions, seriously? Time to wash my hands of Matt Ryan forever, way too many under performances as an 8-year veteran. And no I don't want to hear the Ryan apologists ranting about the complexity of Shanahan's scheme, take that dance somewhere else people.

Harding, owner of The Fantasy Football Firm has been playing and winning fantasy football since 1987. The Firm specializes in helping fantasy owners win in three key post-draft areas. Senior Partners at The Firm get all three publications: “Effective Team Management”, “Waiver Wire Wisdom” and “The Trade Maker” a combined 57 pages packed with sound, proven and effective strategies focused solely on helping partners win their league championships and to do so more consistently than ever before. On Twitter: @UDONTWINONDDAY.

JOSHUA SIMMONS

Among the more disappointing players this season, Andrew Luck in seven games completed 55 percent of his passes, tossed nearly as many interceptions as touchdowns, and had quite a bit to do with five of Indy's losses. Young players make their share of mistakes, but this was supposed to be another year in which Luck took a giant step forward as the next great NFL quarterback. The Colts invested heavily in Andrew's supporting cast, headlined by T.Y. Hilton's extension, free agent acquisitions Frank Gore and Andre Johnson, and drafting Phillip Dorsett in the first round. The worst part is how incredibly early Luck came off the board in fantasy drafts. All is not lost for Indianapolis, sitting atop the AFC South (along with Houston) with a .500 record. All is hopefully not lost for Luck fantasy owners, many of whom took advantage of how replaceable the quarterback position tends to be in normal sized leagues via waivers.

Simmons has been a contributor for FantasySharks.com since 2007. His responsibilities include dynasty rankings, weekly projections-driven content and staff representation in various leagues.

ANDY RICHARDSON

A couple of Packers leap to mind, Aaron Rodgers and Eddie Lacy. Rodgers has underperformed all year, and while it's not all on him -- line, receivers, offense -- he certainly deserves some of the blame. I think we can say that Manning, Brady and Rodgers' predecessor Brett Favre made the players around them better, and Rodgers hasn't done that this season. Lacy has been a flat-out bust, with occasional good games that make you actually start him the next week, during which he proceeds to flop. Thought about Andrew Luck, too. Along with Rodgers, he's a shining example of why drafting quarterbacks early seldom works out.

Richardson has been a contributing writer and editor to the Fantasy Football Index magazine and www.fantasyindex.com since 2002. His responsibilities include team defense and IDP projections and various site features, and he has run the magazine's annual experts draft and auction leagues since their inception. He previews all the NFL games on Saturdays and writes a wrap-up column on Mondays during the NFL season.

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