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Which veteran QB on the move intrigues you most?

Vegas at center of discussions

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 veteran quarterback likely or possibly on the move intrigues you most?

MICHAEL NAZAREK

I am very interested to see where Tom Brady lands. I do not think he will retire, simply because he enjoys playing so much and no longer has a wife nagging at him to retire. Can the Raiders convince him to come to Vegas? It will certainly be interesting to see where he goes!

Nazarek is the CEO of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc, celebrating 25 years online! His company offers a preseason draft guide, customizable cheat sheets, a multi-use fantasy drafting program including auction values, weekly in-season newsletters, injury reports and free NFL news (updated daily) at its web site, www.ffmastermind.com. 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 nearly $30K in recent seasons of the FFPC High Stakes Main Event. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

SCOTT SACHS

Derek Carr to New Orleans makes sense. Getting out of the AFC and moving to the NFC would be advantageous for him. While I'm not sold on their head coach, the Saints are in the weakest division, have some weapons, and really need stability at the QB position. The fans will embrace him and his personality as well, just like they did with Brees. As far as the destination for Tom Brady, I rate Tennessee (Vrabel), Las Vegas (McDaniels), and SF (born in San Mateo) in that order. Let's not be too surprised if Brady stays in Tampa, since they dumped Leftwich, and his kids I think are still living in Florida. Speaking of Florida, I think Miami sticks with Tua, rather than pursuing Brady.

With 2 perfect seasons and multiple league championships to his credit, Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, featuring LIVE Talk & Text Advice. He is a 3-time Winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Auction League, as well as a previous Winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Poll.

PAUL CHARCHIAN

Pittsburgh is sitting in a quarterbacking no man's land. As a rookie, Kenny Pickett demonstrated passing skills requisite of a backup quarterback, including failing to throw more than one touchdown in any game. The Steelers probably won't spend another first-round pick on the position. And besides, at pick 1.16, they probably can't get a sure-fire starter anyway. So it might make sense to rent a veteran quarterback who can provide a couple years of service while they figure out the future of the position, with Pickett or someone else. I'm not sure Mike Tomlin would sign up for Aaron Rodgers' shenanigans. And Pittsburgh isn't glitzy enough for Tom Brady. But Derek Carr could fit in Pittsburgh, particularly if he leaves his eyeliner in Vegas. He'd inherit some solid receiving options, each of whom would see a sizable uptick in fantasy value.

Charchian is the CEO at GuillotineLeagues.com. Guillotine Leagues are a new way to play in which the lowest-scoring team each week gets chopped from the league, and all the players go to the waiver wire. Charchian was inducted into the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

JASON WOOD

There’s been a steady drumbeat within the industry that Tom Brady would be in San Francisco next season, but it’s hard to fathom now with how well Brock Purdy has played; why wouldn’t the 49ers let Purdy and Lance compete for the job in camp? So that leaves me wondering if Brady ends up reuniting with Josh McDaniels in Las Vegas? If not Brady, then perhaps Jimmy Garoppolo reunites with McDaniels.

Wood is Senior Editor at Footballguys.com and has been with the company since its start in 2000. For more than 20 years, Footballguys has provided rankings, projections, and analysis to help fantasy managers dominate their leagues.

IAN ALLAN

A year ago, I thought Derek Carr looked like a top-10 quarterback. I thought he ascended up into that good quarterback tier, alongside guys like Kirk Cousins and Dak Prescott. I think there’s some chance he can get back to being that kind of a quarterback, if the fit is right. He gets to pick his new team (by either approving a trade or forcing the Raiders to release him), and after being trapped in lesser situations in a lot of years with the Raiders, I imagine he’ll be more interested in getting in the right offense rather than trying to squeeze out every last dime. I wonder if he would consider signing a modest contract with Miami, allowing him to compete with Tua Tagovailoa. A move into the NFC South, perhaps, with all four of those teams looking like possibilities.

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.

DAVID DOREY

Derek Carr will be moving on from the Raiders and he is only 31 years old. He's more than a band-aid to a QB-needy team and will likely be released by the Raiders to allow him to go anywhere. He has a no-trade clause in his contract and will want to control his own destiny, so I expect he forces the situation that makes the Raiders lose him without any compensation. A team like Carolina, Tampa Bay, Washington or Indianapolis could bring him on and still consider drafting a QB of the future.

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.

ANDY RICHARDSON

I think Aaron Rodgers is gone from Green Bay. The Packers need to figure out if Jordan Love is the future, and it feels like they've done the song-and-dance with Rodgers trying to get them back there enough times. Either he wants a fresh start somewhere, or they're just tired of the annual drama -- Packers fans have certainly seen this happen before. I don't know where he's going to end up (reportedly the AFC, but we'll see; I think they'll take the best offer they can get, and should know they're probably not a Super Bowl contender in Love's first year as a starter anyway. I'm not sure Rodgers can still play at an elite level for a full season, but some team, maybe the Jets or Raiders, will be intrigued enough to give it a try.

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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