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What will happen in Super Bowl LVII?

No consensus for big game

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 will happen in Super Bowl LVII?

SAM HENDRICKS

Spoiler Alert: Eagles win 37-31. The first quarter is a slog fest with no real winner. Score 0-0. Second quarter, A.J. Brown catches a TD pass and Miles Sanders runs one in, as does Isiah Pacheco for Kansas City. A Harrison Butker field goal makes it 14-10 at halftime. Rihanna is fabulous in the halftime show and her first song is "Don't Stop the Music". Kansas City takes an early third quarter lead from a Travis Kelce TD, but the Eagles battle back with two more TDs, this time from Devonta Smith and the nail in the coffin is a Jalen Hurts rushing TD. Each team trades a field goal and the score after 3 quarters is 31-20. The Chiefs start the fourth with a field goal to make it a one-score game but two more Philly field goals put it out of reach. KC scores late with a TD pass to MVS. Final, 37-31 Eagles. Jalen Hurts is MVP.

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 30-year fantasy football veteran who participated 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.

DAVID DOREY

Have to like for this Super Bowl to be higher scoring than we've seen lately. Playing in good weather in Arizona will help the passing games for both teams and this should produce a shootout. The Eagles have the better defense by far, but the Chiefs have been there and all things are possible with Patrick Mahomes who should be at least incrementally healthier. I like Kansas City to take this even though the Eagles are favored currently by one or two points depending on where you look. That's another slight that they get to take and turn into motivation as they did against the Bengals last week. It should be a great game to watch with high points and it will not be decided until late in the game, if not in the final minute. I like the over for the 49.5 point over/under.

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.

JASON WOOD

Full disclosure, I'm a lifelong Eagles fan and season ticket holder. So I'm completely biased on this one. I expect this to be an all-time classic matchup as the league's two best teams (1 seeds) face off with plenty of underlying stories as Andy Reid remains the Eagles all-time winningest coach, the Kelce Brothers play against each other, and we finally have two Black quarterbacks playing one another in the Bowl. I view the outcome as a legitimate coin flip, partially driven by how hurt Kansas City is, including Mahomes and the banged-up receiving corps. Naturally, I'm rooting for a tight Eagles win, but I'm not particularly confident.

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.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

Philadelphia 31, Kansas City 27. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is the Super Bowl MVP.

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.

ANDY RICHARDSON

There are some injury questions that cloud the projections. How much will Patrick Mahomes be limited by his ankle, Jalen Hurts by his shoulder, and Kansas City's top wideouts (JuJu Smith-Schuster, Kadarius Toney) by the injuries they picked up in the AFC Championship game? We don't really know. But since I know Mahomes won't be moving as well as if he were fully healthy, and I know that the Eagles have one of the most productive pass rushes in NFL history, I'm concerned about that matchup for Kansas City's offense. I'm expecting a good, close game, but in critical moments late I think the Philadelphia pass rush might be able to get the better of Kansas City's quarterback. I'll go Eagles 27, Kansas City 24.

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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