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Who should fantasy teams sell high on?

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 early-season top performer should fantasy owners sell high on?

DAVID DOREY

Marvin Jones is on a pace to gain 2176 yards on 96 receptions with 11 TDs. That is obviously not going to happen for a fifth-round WR who never topped 816 yards in his three previous seasons. Jones has been a surprise to have so dominated the wideouts for the Lions and sent Golden Tate to the showers. The same Tate who had 1331 yards for the Lions back in 2014. Jones should remain good, but this blistering pace is not sustainable and the 205 yards in Green Bay is just an aberration.

Dorey is the co-founder and lead NFL analyst for The Huddle and author of Fantasy Football: The Next Level. He has projected and predicted every NFL game and player performance since 1997 and has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, radio and television.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI

Matt Ryan is off to a snappy start, but a cream-puff schedule is buoying the production. Things are about to get a lot tougher -- hello, Carolina, Denver and Seattle. I also worry about what Ryan's production might be like if Julio Jones were to miss any time; I get nervous watching Jones hobble around on a week-to-week basis, though he certainly tries to play through injuries. It's not always easy to sell a quarterback in a standard start-one league (more Superflex, friends), but nonetheless I would be taking Ryan to market.

Pianowski has been playing fantasy football for 20 years and writing about it for 17. He joined Yahoo! Sports in 2008 and has been blogging 24/7 on RotoArcade.com ever since.

IAN ALLAN

Terrelle Pryor has really surprised me. He’s great, and the coaches in Cleveland deserve a lot of credit for developing him and turning him into a viable receiver. He’s playing against an injury-riddled Washington secondary this week and I really like that matchup (with him also getting some rushing and passing production as a change-of-pace quarterback). But Josh Gordon comes back next week, Corey Coleman won’t be far behind, and both of Cleveland’s veteran quarterbacks are injured. I have very little interest, therefore, in Pryor beyond Week 4.

Allan is the senior writer for Fantasy Football Index. He's been in that role since 1987, generating most of the player rankings and analysis for that publication. His work can be seen in Fantasy Football Index magazine, and also at www.fantasyindex.com.

L.A. HALE

LeGarrette Blount is the No. 3 RB in standard leagues and No. 9 RB in PPR leagues and off to a hot start, but I recommend selling him now, while is value is at an all-time high. He is playing a prominent role in the offense with youngsters Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett manning the fort with Tom Brady suspended. Brady is due to return in Week 5 and the offense will revert to pass-first mode and Blount is destined to be lost in the maddening Bill Belichick running back shuffle.

Hale is the Founder and President of www.Fantasy Gives, a 501c3 charitable organization that provides financial support to non-profit groups through fantasy sports.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

That's an easy one. DeAngelo Williams should be SOLD HIGH to the LeVeon Bell owner in your league!

Nazarek is the CEO of Fantasy Football Mastermind Inc. His company offers a preseason draft guide, customizable cheat sheets, a multi-use fantasy drafting program including auction values, weekly in-season fantasy newsletters, injury reports and free NFL news (updated daily) at its web site. 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. For more info go to www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

SAM HENDRICKS

Jordan Reed. Not that he has set the FF world on fire (16 catches, 190 yards receiving) but he has been consistent. I do not think this will last much longer. He will continue to see double coverage while Cousins spreads the ball around to a talented wide receiver group and several tight ends including Niles Paul and a resurgent Vernon Davis. Throw in the always potent threat of injury that Reed seems to constantly flirt with and you have a Top 5 tight end that is on the downslope in 2016.

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 is drafting live in the FFPC in Vegas this year. He won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

ANDY RICHARDSON

Running backs from bad teams. Carlos Hyde and LeSean McCoy leap to mind. Hyde was doing absolutely nothing against Seattle last week; something like 12 for 36 late in the game, when Seattle called off the dogs. Nearly identical to Hyde's 14 for 34 stat line the previous week. Hyde is going to have a lot of nothing games, and I wouldn't want to be starting him. I don't believe McCoy can keep things up either, although at least he'll be involved as a receiver. Hyde is the big one; trade him while you can.

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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