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: Which injured player are you willing to draft anyway?

JUSTIN ELEFF

The Bears’ schedule is packed with teams that will absolutely not be able to blow them out, so I think the team will be able (in a scoreboard sense, anyway) to run all game long in most weeks. Lots of tight fourth quarters, lots of David Montgomery once he’s back on the field. Not that the line in front of him is anything special, nor that Montgomery himself is. But the discount we’re now getting is lovely for one of the real opportunity kings of 2020.

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

MICHAEL NAZAREK

I'm not worried about the hamstring injury of Miles Sanders. He will see a very heavy workload in Philly. I can say if I draft him, I will also target Boston Scott as a solid backup.

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. He's also won nearly $30K in recent seasons of the FFPC High Stakes Main Event. www.ffmastermind.com. Nazarek can be reached via email at miken@ffmastermind.com.

SCOTT SACHS

Cooper Kupp was recently diagnosed with an ankle injury, but it doesn't look like he will miss any games, so I'm confident in acquiring him. He is highly productive, in a well-suited offense, and at age 27 is entering his prime. Jarvis Landry will be pushing it to play in Week 1 after off-season hip surgery, but he's tough and prideful, and I've had him every year of his career and that includes 2020. Deebo Samuel I would definitely take a flyer on as it appears that his recovery is way ahead of schedule. Instead of October, the 49ers are thinking he might be ready Week 1.

Sachs runs Perfect Season Fantasy Football, offering LIVE Talk & Text consulting. He has multiple league championships including 2 perfect seasons. Scott is a past winner of the Fantasy Index Experts Poll and a 2-time winner of the Experts Auction League.

IAN ALLAN

I still like Deebo Samuel. When he’s right physically, he might be a top-10 receiver. He was really good on end-arounds last year, so I think he might post the best rushing stats of any wide receiver. And I think he’ll be their leading wide receiver, catching a bunch of balls. He caught 35 passes in the second half of last year.

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

SCOTT PIANOWSKI

I am rarely a person who goes after the player already injured, but I'm willing to make an exception for Deebo Samuel. It sounds like his rehab is going well -- we should see him in September at some point, perhaps in Week 1. And his upside is every-week, set-and-forget status, even shallow leagues. His current draft pocket provides an excellent profit opportunity. After you solidify your primary starters, see if you can sneak Samuel.

An FSWA award-winning writer (with nominations in four sports) and podcaster, Scott has been with Yahoo Sports since 2008. On the rare occasions when the computer is turned off, he enjoys word games, poker, music, film, game theory, and a variety of condiments. He lives in suburban Detroit.

SAM HENDRICKS

I hate injuries this close to the start of the season. And I hate groin injuries even more. And I hate rookie injuries even more than groin injuries. Combine the two and you have players (Montgomery, Swift) I am avoiding this year. As it is I am avoiding rookies for the most part and rookies with injuries for sure. So I might draft Dallas Goedert and his thumb fracture but other than that I am staying clear of injured players as they lose too much in the COVID challenged 2020 training environment.

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 and 2018. Follow him at his web site, www.ffguidebook.com.

DAVID DOREY

While Jalen Reagor has a slight tear in his labrum and may miss a game or two, he's still deserving to be on everyone's draft list. The rookie is in a tremendous situation with an Eagles team that needs help from the wide receivers. Alshon Jeffery is 30 years old and too often hurt. DeSean Jackson is 33 years old and hasn't last all 16 games since 2008. He missed 13 in 2019. Reagor already drew praise from Carson Wentz and the coaching staff. He'll likely miss a game or two, and start slowly, but by midseason should become a big factor in Eagles passing offense for many years to come.

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

Kenyan Drake has been sporting a walking boot in Arizona, but I'm going with the indication that it's strictly precautionary. That's what Kliff Kingsbury has said, and I'm willing to believe him. The team hasn't made any move to add anyone else. If Drake slips to me midway through the second round, I'll take him. If I do, though, I'll probably draft Chase Edmonds a little sooner than necessary, just to make sure I protect that pick.

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.