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 will be the fantasy MVP of the second half of the NFL season?
DAVID DOREY
Any answer here has to include "health willing". This is not about Week 8, but Dalvin Cook is the major cog of the Vikings' offense that will see heavy usage every week. He's not only cranking out monster games, but he has the easiest schedule strength among running backs the rest of the way. He doesn't even have an outside cold weather game.
Dorey co-founded The Huddle.com in 1997. He's ranked every player and projected every game for the last 23 years and is the author of Fantasy Football: The Next Level. David has appeared on numerous radio, television, newspaper and magazines over the last two decades.
SAM HENDRICKS
Alvin Kamara. He looks on track to lead for the rest of the season. His receiving yards give him the boost no other RB has. And the Saints do not look like they are going to slow down. Kamara is the centerpiece of that offense and Kamara will be the MVP for the second half of 2020.
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 and 2018. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.
IAN ALLAN
If I were walking into a draft today, I’d be taking a long look at Christian McCaffrey. He’s got fresh legs, and they’ll be using him a ton — both as a runner and a pass catcher. We’re at the halfway point of the season, and Carolina has scored a running back touchdown in every game. (McCaffrey and Mike Davis in the first six weeks; in their last two games, Curtis Samuel has lined up as a running back and run in touchdowns).
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 the early 1990s. Allan is a member of the FSTA Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame.
ANDY RICHARDSON
Matthew Stafford...wait, what's that? OK, Deebo Samuel...no. Part of me thinks it will be Russell Wilson, with Peyton Manning's record of 55 touchdowns in reach. If he has a couple of big games the next two weeks I could see the team thinking about getting him there. Another possibility, though, is Chase Edmonds. I think he'll be very good this week, and Arizona will just leave him in the starting role. He could have some big games like Kenyan Drake had down the stretch a year ago. Finally, because I want to give plenty of options, let's consider Jordan Reed. Sure, he'll probably get hurt again. But he should be the No. 2 option in San Francisco's passing game a lot of weeks, in line to put up very good production at a position where there aren't many difference makers.
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.