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: What deal would you like to see occur before next week's trading deadline?
SCOTT PIANOWSKI
Although the NFL's trading deadline is almost always a dud, we can always throw a penny into the fountain and make a wish. For Allen Robinson, it's anywhere but here. Kansas City. Green Bay (granted, in-division deals are extremely rare). New Orleans. Cleveland. Edmonton, Winnipeg, London, Munich, I don't care. Watching this Chicago passing game (Matt Nagy is clearly over his head) makes my eyes bleed.
An FSWA award-winning writer (with nominations in four sports) and podcaster, Scott has been with Yahoo Sports since 2008. On the rare occasions when the computer is turned off, he enjoys word games, poker, music, film, game theory, and a variety of condiments. He lives in suburban Detroit.
SCOTT SACHS
While I don't think a trade will happen, it is obvious Jimmy G is done in San Francisco. He's fragile, plus coach and management are poorly handling his damaged psyche. What a terrible thing to work for any employer who has shown in word and deed that you are not wanted anymore. Yeah, Jimmy G and his descendants are financially set for eternity, but it would be merciful if he were shipped out to Carolina or Houston. If Trey Lance was fully healthy right now, I could see a trade happening, but since he isn't, Jimmy G will languish in 49er Purgatory.
Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, offering LIVE Talk & Text consulting. He has multiple league championships including 2 perfect seasons. Scott is a past winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Poll and a 2-time winner of the Experts Auction League.
DAVID DOREY
I'd like to see Michael Gallup traded from the Cowboys. With so many teams trying to get their passing offenses into gear, Gallup is just too deep on Dak Prescott's reads when he passes with CeeDee Lamb, Amari Cooper, Dalton Schultz and Ezekiel Elliott more likely to be a target. He has the talent to be a starter and could upgrade a needier team.
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.
IAN ALLAN
Deshaun Watson is the headliner, of course. There are all kinds of legal problems that need to be entangled, but if and when those are resolved, I expect he’ll be a top-5 quarterback again. I don’t expect to see him on a field until 2022. But there will be another notable player or two who’ll be dealt. The Texans kicked things off by dealing Mark Ingram on Wednesday, giving the Saints some needed depth behind Alvin Kamara. I imagine we’ll see some more movement of that ilk before the Tuesday deadline. Mike Gesicki of Miami, for example, is a good tight end who’s in the final year of his contract. Would the Dolphins consider moving him?
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.
SAM HENDRICKS
Hayden Hurst to Buffalo. Hurst is languishing behind the star of Super rookie Kyle Pitts. He needs to be the man somewhere. The Bills are without their own young superstar Dawson Knox for a few weeks. Why not trade for Hurst and let him shine, then go to two-TE sets with both Knox and Hurst for the inevitable Buffalo playoff run. The only road block might be the Falcons asking price since they just traded for Hurst 18 months ago.
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.
ANDY RICHARDSON
Mark Ingram is a franchise back just waiting to carry some offense to the playoffs if he can get free of Houston. But seriously, I would like to see Odell Beckham traded. His career had such a promising start, and while injuries have been the main reason he's flopped in Cleveland, his talent is definitely wasted in an offense that doesn't want to pass the ball much at all and has even less interest in passing it to wide receivers. Cleveland doesn't need him to make a playoff run, and Beckham on a roster that needs a wide receiver (Saints? Packers?) would be intriguing.
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.