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 bench stash should fantasy teams continue to be patient with -- NOT drop just yet?

DAVID DOREY

The development phase of the season is pretty much over and most depth chart/ranking jumps are going to be related to injury or losing teams trying something new. That all said, the Bears are throwing much better and Mitchell Trubisky is taking the next step. Anthony Miller is worth holding onto despite his moderate stats so far. The Bears schedule is appealing and Miller is already getting better. If either Taylor Gabriel or Allen Robinson are hurt, Miller steps in.

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.

MIKE NEASE

The Green Bay offense has been inconsistent so far this season. With Aaron Rodgers, nursing a knee injury incurred in Week 1 and a depleted receiving corp, the passing game has been limping by. At the same time, no running back has emerged to really establish a running game. Over the last couple of seasons, when he hasn’t been injured, Ty Montgomery has shown signs of talent. He is a decent runner and as a wide receiver in the past, he has great pass catching skills. I would stash him, or if he is available on waivers, pick him up. In this game you never know when an extra running back might come in handy.

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.

IAN ALLAN

I like handcuff running backs with upside — guys who’ll put up big numbers if the player in front of them gets hurt. So if Malcolm Brown or Spencer Ware happens to shake free from a roster as a fantasy owner juggles his roster, I will try to pounce. On the off chance either Todd Gurley or Kareem Hunt gets hurt, you could have a really valuable asset.

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.

JUSTIN ELEFF

Something has to give in Tampa Bay, where the Bucs have tried all season to fit Peyton Barber into Todd Monken's offense and really only succeeded once, at Atlanta two weeks ago, in a game that saw 63 total points scored. So any warm body behind Barber could be the pick, and while I am not yet ready to call Ronald Jones anything more than a warm body, there are signs pointing to your patience paying off eventually. For one thing, Barber is hurt right now, and while the Bucs have been decidedly unforthcoming with his diagnosis/prognosis, he didn't practice on Wednesday. Meanwhile Jones scored a short rushing touchdown in the third quarter last week, by most accounts before Barber suffered his injury. And while by reputation Jones is useless in the passing game (and he's clearly a liability in pass protection), there's even reason to believe things might pick up for him as a receiver. Note, e.g., that Jacquizz Rodgers has seen all of one target combined over the past three games -- five fewer than Jones, in the first three games of the latter's career. For now it appears very possible that Barber won't play at all this week. If nothing else we should know more about Jones soon.

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

ALAN SATTERLEE

I’ll spotlight a few rookie wide receivers. Courtland Sutton has yet to reach double-digit fantasy points in a single game but he remains a strong hold (or buy) in my book — and Sutton is a fair sleeper this week in what should be a shootout trying to keep up with the Kansas City. Obviously should Demaryius Thomas get traded Sutton’s value flies upward. He has big upside given his talent. I have been patiently waiting on Tre’Quan Smith and it looks like that could cash in moving forward after his big performance in Week 5 and with Ted Ginn now on injured reserve. Lastly, I am holding firm on the Panthers’ DJ Moore. He’s another one with too much talent not to bust out some in the second half of the season.

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.

SAM HENDRICKS

It’s good to have waited on Nick Chubb. He has not had many chances to start in fantasy leagues so far this year but now comes into the limelight with the trade of Carlos Hyde. Chubb faces some tough defenses, but the Browns are committed to the run. He can come off your bench and be your RB1 now with a predicted 12 points per game for the rest of the season. That will be mainly from rushing yards and TDs as Duke Johnson has the catches out of the backfield wrapped up.

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.

ANDY RICHARDSON

I’m still using a roster spot on guys like Chase Edmonds. Totally valueless now, but a full-time back if David Johnson misses time. And I can’t really bring myself to drop Jamaal Williams either,although I’m pretty close. Maybe somebody else gets hurt and he is at least in a two-man committee. But I did finally give up the ghost on Hayden Hurst. Such a nice preseason performer, but he’s stuck in the most ridiculous tight end committee in NFL history.

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.