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Which Week 1 performance was the fantasy?

Ross, Jackson strike some as suspect

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 Week 1 performance was the fantasy -- unlikely to be repeated?

DAVID DOREY

John Ross caught seven passes for 158 yards and two scores in Seattle. He never gained more than 52 yards in any game last year or caught more than three passes. It was nice to see him step up but he also just had his best game of 2019. Tyler Boyd and eventually A.J. Green will take the lead from here on out.

Dorey has been dealing out all the rankings and projections for The Huddle since 1997 and wrote up a preview of every game for the last 21 years. His specialty is schedule strength and he’s been in countless magazines, podcasts, and radio shows. He is the author of Fantasy Football: The Next Level.

SCOTT SACHS

On the positive performance side, I think the outlier may have been Andy Dalton. While the Bengals will be trailing in most of their games, Dalton chucking the ball 51 times a game for over 400 yards is not going to be sustainable nor realistic for very long. John Ross had a breakout game, but it took him how long into his career to have it? Not buying it. On the negative performance side, I don't expect Baker Mayfield to have another 3 interception game the rest of this year. Browns have tough sledding now, but their schedule eases up some the 2nd half of the season.

Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, offering LIVE Talk & Text consulting. He has multiple league championships including two perfect seasons. Sachs is a past winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Poll and a 2-time winner of the Experts Auction League.

ALAN SATTERLEE

The Bengals have a new coach so maybe Zac Taylor will be able to bring a new vibe to Cincinnati, but regardless I am not buying the John Ross big game (Ross erupted for 7/158/2 on 12 targets). Ross does have a high draft pedigree with great speed, but I don’t see this type of elite performance continuing. A.J. Green will be back at some point but in the meantime I would expect opposing defensive coordinators to watch this past week’s film (starting with the 49ers this week) and put a clamp down on Ross who averaged just 1.6 receptions per game last year.

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.

JUSTIN ELEFF

I imagine the he’ll-never-be-this-good-again answers have that side of things covered, so how about a very tentative he’ll-never-be-this-bad-again? Jameis Winston was putrid on Sunday, and it’s tempting to say if he can’t do better (against the 49ers defense!) with so many advantages in place (Bruce Arians! weapons galore!) he’s just never going to figure it out. But he did make a couple of better plays that were wiped out by holding calls, and we’ve seen him crap out and then ... crap back in? ... before, and the advantages are all still there. I’m blaming everything on Mike Evans’s upset stomach and hoping the whole offense is back to eating Ws — or at least passing TDs — soon.

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

SAM HENDRICKS

Lamar Jackson's 5 passing TDs and 324 passing yards are unlikely to be repeated again this season. Why? The first reason is Baltimore does not play Miami again. Do I need another reason? If so, second, Jackson is more likely to run or handoff to Mark Ingram as the Ravens seek to win games with clock management vice blowing out a weaker opponent. Do not expect another repeat of his Week 1 fantasy.

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.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI

I know Jameis Winston is hard to trust, but I have too much faith in Mike Evans and Bruce Arians. Go get Evans.

Pianowski has been playing fantasy football for over 20 years and writing about it for 18. He joined Yahoo! Sports in 2008 and has been blogging 24/7 on RotoArcade.com ever since.

ANDY RICHARDSON

Kudos to Lamar Jackson and Marquise Brown. They showed signs of being worth Baltimore's faith in them. But I have a feeling a lot of players are going to set season-high marks against the Miami Dolphins this year. With Brown especially, he played only a fraction of the snaps. I have no doubt they will have other long touchdown hookups, and I'm glad I have Brown in a best-ball league. But I think there will be far more quiet, 2 catches for 28 yards type games. I will be wary of starting Brown (although just maybe Arizona this week will be another hit).

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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