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 key to your fantasy season?

SAM HENDRICKS

Lamar Miller. I drafted him in so many leagues as my flex running back. If he can keep the starting gig in Houston he will be the crown jewel in my championship run in a ton of leagues. I love the late rounds that I got him and salivate over the other players I was able to draft ahead of him while waiting to pounce. My fingers are crossed that he keeps the “three-down back” moniker that head coach Bill O’Brien gave him this preseason. 1,200 combined yards and 8 TDs are achievable and his ceiling is higher.

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 won the Fantasy Index Open in 2013. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

DAVID DOREY

Jimmy Graham. Of the handful of players that are on many of my teams. Graham playing with Aaron Rodgers who is looking to replace the Jordy Nelson role as top red zone threat will allow a difference-making tight end to be drafted much later than Gronk or Kelce. Getting a boost from a position that is doing very little for almost all other teams and having it not cost more than a fifth or sixth round pick is a huge benefit. Sadly, his stock rose all summer. Initially, he was an eighth-round option.

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.

ALAN SATTERLEE

I play in three leagues, drafted twice at the bottom and once at 1.05. You’re going to tend to get different players at those slots but the one player I have early in all three leagues is Kenyan Drake. Although I do like to diversify some, when he came around in the 4th I just couldn’t pass Drake up at those prices. Running backs are so scare (elite running backs I should say), and I think Drake could be a big difference-maker at the RB2 position (especially for my leagues which give receiving bonuses, and TD-length bonuses). Other players I ended up a lot with (generally grabbing later) included Jared Goff, DJ Moore, Courtland Sutton, Dallas Goedert and Cordarrelle Patterson.

Satterlee is the Fantasy Football Insider for the Charlotte Observer and is syndicated in a few other newspapers in the southeast. Satterlee first started playing fantasy football in 1990.

IAN ALLAN

There are a pair of bargain quarterbacks that I like: Alex Smith and Andy Dalton. These guys tend to come really cheap, and I think they’ll outperform many of the quarterbacks chosen before them. With Smith, I like the offense he’s in, and he’s gotten enough weapons. With Dalton, I like that he’s got a really explosive pair of wide receivers (and also that I don’t think Cincinnati can run the ball). Dalton in Week 15 is playing at home against Oakland. I think he’s going to start for some of my fantasy teams that week.

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 in the early 1990s. Allan is a member of the FSTA Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame.

JUSTIN ELEFF

Looks like it’s going to be Trey Burton, who shows up on almost every team I’ve drafted, in two different roles. In best-ball leagues he’s there behind an acknowledged stud, pulling double-duty to cover for Zach Ertz’s down weeks and maybe plug in as a flex if they both go off at the same time. In other leagues I usually skipped the stud and made Burton my frontliner, so I’ll be leaning on him more heavily. Because I value him more than others appear to, I’ve landed him again and again — and he brings with him the marginally better backs and receivers I’ve drafted in the rounds when they’ve been taking Greg Olsen and Delanie Walker. When he matches or even exceeds those guys’ production, that could be the whole difference in a tight league or two.

Eleff hosts the Fantasy Index Podcast, available in the iTunes Store now. He has worked for Fantasy Index off and on all century.

SCOTT SACHS

I have Jimmy Graham on multiple teams including my main league which includes PPR and multiple wild cards. While planning on near career lows in receptions, I'm thinking, hoping and praying that he makes up for the lack of PPR points, by snagging 12-plus TDs this season. Also, I ended up with the tandem of Ryan and Rivers a couple of times, including the Fantasy Index Experts Auction (best ball), plus my main league (can play 2 quarterbacks).

With two perfect seasons and multiple league championships to his credit, Scott Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, featuring live talk and text advice. Scott won the 2011 and 2016 Fantasy Index Experts Auction league, plus he was the winner of the 2012 Fantasy Index Experts Poll.

MATT SCHAUF

Rob Gronkowski’s return to double-digit TD territory will win me multiple individual weeks, as he dominates tight end scoring and outperforms the running backs going around him in the 2nd round. He’s the pick here because the specific players I took at running back and wide receiver behind him varied.

Schauf is a senior analyst with DraftSharks.com. He has been covering fantasy football since 2002, producing content for outlets such as Sporting News, Rotoworld, Athlon and Football Diehards before landing with DS. Draft Sharks has been online since 1999 and is a 4-time winner in the FSTA’s annual fantasy football projections accuracy contests.

MICHAEL NAZAREK

This is a question I can't answer because of the varied leagues scoring systems I play, I don't draft one guy in all (or even in most) of them. That said, I'd have to say my top RB in my leagues is the most important. You may not win a league if he produces, but if he doesn't, you certainly can lose it.

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 newly re-designed 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. He's also won in excess of $20K in recent seasons of the FFPC High Stakes Main Event. www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

MIKE NEASE

To step up and win a championship you need that player, or a couple of players, that will stand out and take your team on their backs, week in and week out. This year I have two such players on many of my rosters, Alvin Kamara and Antonio Brown. They are both models of consistency and almost always have a solid game scoring wise. More importantly though, they both have the capability of exploding and having huge scoring weeks. If they stay healthy and perform to my expectations, I should reap some rewards around Christmas time.

Nease is a member of the FSWA and has been playing the game since 1985, while also writing about it since 2001. He is a writer for Big Guy Fantasy Sports. Over the years he has sampled about all the playing scenarios that fantasy football offers, including re-drafter, keeper, dynasty, auction, IDP and salary cap leagues. You can contact Mike at mnease23@yahoo.com anytime and during the football season follow him @mikeinsights.

ANDY RICHARDSON

I have Jamaal Williams everywhere. I even have in a league where I let him fall a couple of rounds just so I wouldn't have him everywhere, before finally taking him when the value was too great. I honestly don't get it. He's their guy. Mike McCarthy thinks he's going to have a breakout year. Ty Montgomery has proven he can't hold up to the pounding. Aaron Jones, they don't trust in pass protection (kind of important with the league's highest-paid quarterback). If Williams has a big season, I'm going to have a really good starter at a mid-round price. If he doesn't, well, that's what my bench is for.

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.