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 MVP of the fantasy playoffs?

JASON WOOD

The easiest answer is Saquon Barkley. Already one of the favorites for fantasy MVP, Barkley gets Pittsburgh, Washington, and Dallas in the next three weeks. He's matchup-proof but gets a favorable trio of matchups; that's a recipe for greatness. If you want a deeper cut, how about Baker Mayfield? Although you have to manage a Chargers matchup next week, he faces Dallas and Carolina in Weeks 16 and 17. He's currently 4th in passing yards and 3rd in passing touchdowns, and gets juicy matchups in your semifinals and finals.

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.

SCOTT SACHS

Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase have been crushing it, which has the Bengals thinking they have a chance at a playoff shot -- and they do. Many owners have drafted the Burrows & Chase stack, so it's likely many are probably making the fantasy playoffs. If you have to go against them in a Fantasy Playoff Game, or a Super Bowl on Week 16, Cincy plays the Browns and their deeply declining defense. Cleveland can't stop the run, and their secondary is depleted, which is why they have given up an average of 30 points in their last 4 games. Cincinnati won't hesitate to pile it on their interstate rival. At this stage, the Bengals are highly motivated and the dynamic duo of Burrow & Chase looks match-up proof against Tennessee, Cleveland, Denver these next 3 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.

SAM HENDRICKS

Saquon Barkley is the person who took you to the prom and now you get to dance with them until midnight. He stands out among the RBs left standing. Remaining 3 games PIT, @WAS, DAL and finishes with a revenge game against the Giants in NY if you play in a league that uses week 18 for the Championship. He is averaging 23 fantasy points per game! And Philly will be battling Detroit every game for home field advantage because no team wants to go to Ford Field and play the Lions. Sneaky runner up, Ja'Marr Chase.

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.

IAN ALLAN

I like Saquon Barkley. I think teams and players care about individual records. I believe there will be an effort to feed Barkley extra carries, getting him the necessary yards to break the single-season records for rushing yards and combine rushing-receiving yards. Plenty of other good candidates, including the QB-WR combo in Cincinnati, but I like Barkley.

Allan co-founded Fantasy Football Index in 1987. Since that time, he’s written and edited most of the content published in the magazines, newsletters and at www.fantasyindex.com. Allan is a member of the FSGA Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame.

DAVID DOREY

There's no doubt that the fantasy football playoff MVP is going to be the same as the regular season MVP. Saquon Barkley has offered a consistent and dramatic difference to fantasy teams every week and is extremely well-represented in fantasy playoffs. I met with a friend I had not seen in a while and he told me he was having the best fantasy season of his life and was in first place. I said, "So you have Saquon." And he did. The beauty of Barkley is that he is finally running behind the best offensive line of his life, so he doesn't get constantly battered as he did in New York. He has a shot at a 2,000-yard season and even the all-time record to draw him forward and keep him as a difference-maker the rest of the way. The Eagles want to keep winning with playoff seeding still at stake. Barkley stepped into a perfect storm and every other fantasy team is feeling impact.

Dorey co-founded The Huddle.com in 1997. He's ranked every player and projected every game for the last 26 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

It would be hard for Josh Allen to even approach the absurd week he had against the Rams in Week 14. Teams needing a win to get in the playoffs who had him almost certainly did. But the next three weeks aren't so bad either. The Bills are at the Lions this week. Like last week, weather will not be a factor, and Buffalo's defense will probably be surrendering some points, putting Allen into big-time pass and run mode to match the scoring. Then the Bills are home for two weeks, and there's the slight concern of weather being a factor. But as long as conditions are OK, the opposition is really appealing: the Patriots, who really don't have much of anything on defense, and the Jets, who aren't going to be any more interested in playing hard than they've been for the past month or so. Allen's not going for 57 points again, but I think some 30-point weeks are coming up.

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 writes a weekly gambling newsletter, Index Bets, during the NFL season and also previews all the games on Saturdays and writes a wrap-up column on Mondays.