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Who will be a Fantasy Super Bowl MVP?

Lesser guys who might step up

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 lightly regarded player will be a fantasy Super Bowl MVP?

SAM HENDRICKS

Since it is the Christmas season and gifts are a-plenty I will give you one at each position! Derek Carr....Long shot here but the game this week versus Tampa Bay could be a shootout or at the very least give Carr some more garbage-time numbers like last week. For those with quarterbacks missing in action Carr could be your lifeline to a Championship. Clyde Edwards-Helaire...If Isiah Pacheco stays out with a concussion or even plays but gets dinged up again or rested then CEH is the man. Mckinnon is on IR. CEH may just be on waivers. Grab him! DJ Moore...I will take a flyer on Moore. If he plays (and he is not on the injury report but is battling an ankle injury) I predict he could put up 20+ fantasy points (6-85-1). He is trending in the right direction with three 20+ games when healthy. Tucker Kraft ...The kid has been scoring progressively more points every week since starting in Week 10. He has 4 catches and 55 or more yards for the last three games! I have seen my Vikings give up way too many balls to TEs. GB is their nemesis.

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.

SCOTT SACHS

KJ Osborn has stepped up, and with Addison and Hockenson idled, look for big production from the Vikings against the porous Pack this week. Osborn piled up 20+ last week, and this game should be a shootout. Can also take a look at Baltimore's Isaiah Likely against Miami, in another game touted to be a shootout. He had almost 40 points combined in the 2 previous weeks.

With 2 perfect seasons and multiple league championships to his credit, Scott 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

Kyler Murray is coming off his best game of the year, despite a tough opponent and the loss of Marquise Brown. Now he draws the second-easiest possible matchup, Philadelphia, and he might get Brown back. The Eagles allow the second-most fantasy points. Philly has faced backup quarterbacks the last two weeks, but prior to that, six straight quarterbacks had thrown multiple touchdowns. The Eagles have faced only one mobile quarterback, Josh Allen, and he rolled up 81 yards and two scores.

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

I'll give you two for the price of one: Greg Dortch (Arizona) and Brandon Johnson (Denver). Marquise Brown hasn't been right all season and if he doesn't play again this week, the Cardinals face an Eagles secondary that's in shambles. Tyrod Taylor hit Darius Slayton for a long TD in stride this past week, and Dortch is a trusted target who can make the Eagles defense pay across the middle, where Philadelphia is currently playing its 6th and 7th linebackers on the depth chart. Johnson was out for most of the year but tied Jerry Jeudy with five targets this week. With Courtland Sutton likely out, Johnson could step into Sutton's role and produce immediately.

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.

DAVID DOREY

I'd go with Ty Chandler of the Vikings, allowed to become the primary back there over Alexander Mattison and looking great in Week 15 with 132 yards and a score at the Bengals. He was held to only 17 yards on eight runs by the Lions but the entire offense cratered and he still scored a touchdown. This week against the Packers soft run defense, he'll surprise.

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

Dallas at home against the Lions could have some nice lesser options. Brandin Cooks for sure. Zamir White facing the Colts, if no Josh Jacobs, should have another 70-plus yards and a touchdown. Not that he's available anywhere, but D'Andre Swift facing Arizona is a guy I'd love to have in my lineup this week. Swift should be scoring a touchdown from longer than 3 yards, so he won't have to watch his quarterback pushed into the end zone every other series. Last but not least, I'm expecting Jarrett Stidham and some Broncos receiver, maybe Brandon Johnson or Marvin Mims, to have a nice game against the Chargers secondary.

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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