ASK THE EXPERTS appears weekly from training camp through the Super Bowl with answers to a new question being posted Thursday morning. How the guest experts responded when we asked them: Which nobody will be a somebody in Week 17?
ALAN SATTERLEE
We could see some running backs with fresh legs get a lot of work and have an impact this week. We need to see the health of Thomas Rawls, but either way Alex Collins is a great candidate to be an unknown guy who tees off in Week 17. Seattle needs the win while Collins and company are going up against the 32nd-run defense. I also think Derrick Henry could have a season-best game. With the Titans removed from the playoff picture last week, I don't see a lot of motivation to run the veteran DeMarco Murray into the ground this week, or even play him all that much. This would be a great opportunity instead for Tennessee to see what Henry can do with a full workload.
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. He is also the Fantasy Football Insider for the Charlotte Observer and is syndicated in a few other newspapers in the southeast.
SAM HENDRICKS
Eli Rogers faces a Cleveland defense and Antonio Brown will not play in week 17. Both good reasons to expect big things from Eli. I predict 8-120-1. PIT has a playoff spot (and No. 3 seed) clinched. Landry Jones may even favor Rodgers a bit.
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 25 year fantasy football veteran who 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 is drafting live in the FFPC in Vegas this year. He won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.
ANDY RICHARDSON
I had wanted to say Alex Collins against San Francisco, but it sounds like Thomas Rawls will start and play that game (at least until he gets injured again). It's tempting to count on him hurting himself and leaving, but instead I'll go to the Pittsburgh-Cleveland game. Although DeAngelo Williams is LeVeon Bell's backup, he's been hurt, and I think even if he plays it will be strictly to shake some rust off. The main running back in this dream matchup figures to be Fitzgerald Toussaint. I'll be using him in one-week fantasy lineups all over the place and am confident he'll put up good numbers. A few names I'm interested in from other positions (to make your click-through worthwhile) include EJ Manuel (against a Jets defense that has quit), Alfred Blue and essentially any Washington player -- I think the Giants will go through the motions in a one-sided punching bag loss.
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.