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: Who has impressed you the most this preseason?

AARON BLAND

There hasn't been a whole lot to go on in the first two games, but Charger Mike Williams made a spectacular 25-yard TD grab while having a defender draped all over him. To me, it was a possible window into things to come after he had his entire rookie season destroyed by injuries. He's in an excellent passing offense with Keenan Allen on the other side to draw most of the defensive attention. If he can stay healthy, he could be a real force down the stretch, especially in the red zone. Allen has never been a big TD guy and Antonio Gates is gone (for now), so Williams is in a great position to be the go-to guy for Philip Rivers in the end zone.

Bland is a senior contributor for fantasy platform YouRulz.com, which offers in-game substitutions, and has appeared as an expert in numerous fantasy podcasts and magazines. He has been playing fantasy football since he first plucked Fantasy Football Index off the shelf as a teenager in 1992.

MATT PRICE

Jake Kumerow! I know it's not against first-team defenses and that the Packers receiver corp is a crowded place right now but Kumerow has been impressive through two weeks of the preseason. Aaron Rodgers has been praising him publicly and there is certainly a void to be filled in the wake of Jordy Nelson's departure. He is likely a long shot to provide any regular season value unless he can beat out the bevy of rookies the team drafted, but in the preseason we should be paying attention to the "steady drumbeat" kind of players and Kumerow certainly has that behind him.

Price is a Senior Writer for Dynasty League Football. He also hosts the DLF Dynasty Podcast and the Dynasty Game Night podcast. DLF was started in 2006 to provide the first dynasty-focused website to a small niche community of dynasty players. The site continues to be one of the leading sources of analysis, rankings and projections to that same growing community.

ALAN SATTERLEE

This may seem overly obvious, and he was already fairly high on my board, but I think I have a case of Christian McCaffrey fever. I recently had the 1.11 pick (which is not the best of slots), but I felt pretty good selecting McCaffrey to start my team. You need a stud running back to join the party, and McCaffrey has looked like he will fit the bill. You have to love the coach-speak on their planned heavy workload for McCaffrey (and they should, he is the team’s most talented player) and his preseason performance has solidified the fantasy enthusiasm. Will he beat out the likes of Melvin Gordon or Kareem Hunt? Probably not I guess, but we’ll see. McCaffrey did have nearly 1,100 yards last year, 7 TDs and a massive 80 receptions. McCaffrey has now scored in both preseason games and he continues to be a monster as a receiving back, already 6 receptions in preseason in limited play. Honorable mentions -- also at running back, Chris Carson looked good and it’s time to move him up considerably and Rashaad Penny down at least a tier or two; in New England, it’s hard not to imagine James White not being heavily involved and he’s moved up my list.

Satterlee is the Fantasy Football Insider for the Charlotte Observer and is syndicated in a few other newspapers in the southeast. Satterlee first started playing fantasy football in 1990.

IAN ALLAN

Chris Warren is huge, and he breaks tackles. Seems like every time they give him the ball, he picks up 3-5 extra yards. He reminds me of Michael Turner. Warren isn’t quite as talented; he doesn’t have Turner’s speed. But I think this free agent rookie has earned a place on Oakland’s roster, and that’s a backfield that looks iffy to me. Marshawn Lynch is 32. Doug Martin is also an older guy and has averaged only 2.9 yards per carry two years in a row. DeAndre Washington and Jalen Richard are smaller, third-down type backs. I believe Warren will start at least a few games this year.

Allan co-founded Fantasy Football Index in 1987. He and fellow journalism student Bruce Taylor launched the first newsstand fantasy football magazine as a class project at the University of Washington. For more than three decades, Allan has written and edited most of the content published in the magazines, newsletters and at www.fantasyindex.com. An exhaustive researcher, he may be the only person in the country who has watched at least some of every preseason football game played since in the early 1990s. Allan is a member of the FSTA Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame.

MIKE NEASE

As I look at the two game stats, a lot of names I don’t really know jump out at me. They are the also-rans who play a lot in the preseason and then disappear on the practice squads, or go home and take a real job. After sifting though all the wannabes, I settled on one of my favorite rookie players from last season, Christian McCaffrey. In two games, playing only a limited role, he has compiled a 9-45-2, 6-57-0 stat line. I look for him to have a monster season. A few years back, Matt Forte caught 102 passes in a season, the only running back to accomplish that feat in the last five years. I predict that, if he stays healthy, McCaffrey will top that mark in 2018.

Mike Nease is a member of the FSWA and has been playing the game since 1985, while also writing about it since 2001. He is a writer for Big Guy Fantasy Sports. Over the years he has sampled about all the playing scenarios that fantasy football offers, including re-drafter, keeper, dynasty, auction, IDP and salary cap leagues. You can contact Mike at mnease23@yahoo.com anytime and during the football season follow him @mikeinsights.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

I like what Aaron Rodgers has done in limited action. It's clear his injury from last season has had no effect on his play this summer. He's the No. 1 QB in fantasy for 2018.

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 newly re-designed 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. He's also won in excess of $20K in recent seasons of the FFPC High Stakes Main Event. www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

SAM HENDRICKS

I will give you two; one a rookie and one a veteran. Falcons rookie Calvin Ridley looks great (3-49-1 in preseason week 2) and his route running is ready for primetime. If Julio Jones or Sanu go down with an injury...what are the chances...then Ridley will be rookie of the year. Another wide receiver gets my veteran pick although he has not played much NFL time yet. Mike Williams should shake up the Chargers offense this year. His contested TD grab in week 2 sets the stage for more TDs especially with Hunter Henry's departure for the season. Either player should be around in the middle of the draft and offer upside potential.

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 won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

JUSTIN ELEFF

It’s a tie for me between two utter castoffs who may be doing more than crowding up the depth chart in New England. Running back Jeremy Hill and wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson have both been making plays that if you only looked at the bodies making them — and didn’t know anything about the names on the backs of the jerseys — would absolutely have you betting both will be major parts of the offense in 2018. Hill has not merely played his way comfortably past Mike Gillislee; he’s looked like a much faster LeGarrette Blount, fully capable of doing all Blount did back in 2016 (when frankly we didn’t expect much from the name on the back of that jersey either). And with Patterson there really isn’t a comparable player who comes to mind. The rap has always been that he’s tremendously explosive but too unpolished to be more than a gadget player; to my eyes Josh McDaniels seems to be leaning into that, with the main “gadget” being “swing the ball out to this guy and let’s see what he does this time.” Thing is, Patterson has been so electric that I really have no doubt the same thing will continue to work in the regular season. McDaniels is one of the great schemers in football. He’s going to dream up ways of getting short receptions set up like kick returns. With the way Patterson moves in space, he could be a candidate to score half a dozen long touchdowns even if he tops out around 30 total catches.

Eleff hosts the Fantasy Index Podcast, available in the iTunes Store now. He has worked for Fantasy Index off and on all century.

DAVID DOREY

The most impressive rookie to me so far has been wide receiver James Washington with the Steelers. He comes off a stat line of 5-114-2 against the Packers last week. He was the Biletnikoff winner last year as the best college wide out but slid to the 2.28 pick in April with concerns over his size (5-11, 213 lbs.) because he looks more like a running back than a wideout. He’s impressed the Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger has glowed about him. He is the No. 3 wideout there, but one that can produce well enough to merit fantasy attention. He looks to be what Martavis Bryant should have been.

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.

ANDY RICHARDSON

I'll cast a vote for Hayden Hurst, playing a position where it's tough for rookies to make an impact, and going to a team that seems to always have a ton of bodies at the position (so it can be hard to emerge). Right from the Hall of Fame game he's looked very comfortable on the field and I think he probably deserves some credit for Joe Flacco's strong preseason (another player worthy of mention). I've got a couple of FFPC drafts coming up where TEs get 1.5 per reception and you can start 2-3 of them, and I'm just debating where exactly I can safely let him fall but still make sure Hurst is on my team.

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.