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 underachiever thus far will turn things around the rest of the way?
MICHAEL NEASE
The 2019 season has started out pretty much the way most seasons begin. There is the usual abundance of injuries and surprises. Nobody expected Lamar Jackson to be edging out Patrick Mahomes as the top scoring quarterback at this point. Who would have expected that one of the top QB/WR pairs would be off to such a horrific start fantasy wise? So far the Aaron Rodgers/Davante Adams duo is found mired deep in the scoring standings, below many players not anywhere near their caliber. Rest assured that this momentary cosmic disturbance in the fantasy football universe will return to normalcy shortly. The Packers have played two of the best defenses in the NFL in Weeks 1 and 2, and have won both games. The lesson here is that two weeks do not constitute a trend.
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 @mike-insights.
MIKE NAZAREK
Tampa Bay's Mike Evans is too talented to fail to produce for his fantasy owners. Stick with him! He will rebound soon.
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 mobile-friendly 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.
ALAN SATTERLEE
There are a handful of speedy rookie running backs that I believe will eventually make their mark. The first is Darwin Thompson. For starters, you can’t have too many chips in Kansas City's offense. Although Thompson only has two touches on the season his role is likely to grow and he could tee off when or if he is called upon. Next, and likewise, I think you’ll see the Ravens’ Justice Hill have a bigger role over time (and you also wants more pieces of this offense). Hill is a big-play waiting to happen. To complete the trifecta, I think Darrell Henderson will eventually make a mark as well. Henderson may be relegated to many a league’s waiver wire right now but he is worth a stash and hold given his upside as a receiving back (like Thompson and Hill), and also playing on an elite offense.
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.
SCOTT PIANOWSKI
I said Mike Evans last week, perhaps because I misunderstood the question. And I'm going to say Mike Evans again now. I get why everyone is excited about Chris Godwin, and I'm excited too. But I still see Evans as Tampa's No. 1 receiver. There's too much good resume here, and I dare Jameis Winston to be this awful for the full season. Go get Mike 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.
SCOTT SACHS
Davante Adams has no TDs through Week 2. Others have scored TDs for Green Bay, so when will their No. 1 wide receiver finally hit paydirt and make that Lambeau Leap? Adams has 35 TDs the last 3 years, so he is definitely overdue. Game 1 against Chicago was abysmal, lots of misfires. However, last week he topped the hundred yard threshold. So it would stand to reason that this week, when Denver invades the not-yet-frozen-tundra, Davante Adams should finally be able to put together 100+ yards and 1-2 TDs.
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.
ANDY RICHARDSON
Green Bay has opened against Chicago and Minnesota, so it makes sense that scoring would be down. But somebody just dropped Marquez Valdes-Scantling in one of my leagues, and that's too quick to write this passing game off. I'm not sure it will begin this week (Denver), but after that comes a stretch against Philadelphia, Dallas, Detroit, Oakland and Kansas City. In some of those games Green Bay's offense will need to put up big passing numbers, in others it will be easy. I still like these pass catchers.
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.