Your fantasy team likely took home the title last year if you wisely bought into the Patrick Mahomes, Chris Carson, Robert Woods, and George Kittle hype. Had you instead planted your flag on guys like Kirk Cousins, Royce Freeman, Chris Hogan, and Jimmy Graham, you probably spent the season digging your sinking squad out of a whole. With an ever-growing abundance of fantasy advice available, there’s always a plethora of players loved by many different fantasy experts across the web. As a result, it’s never easy to separate the wheat from the chaff. To help you with your research, our featured pundits have arrived to name specific players whose hype trains you should either jump aboard or stay away from. With differing opinions, David Montgomery is listed as a buy and sell. Which expert do you agree with?

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Q1. Who is a player deservedly receiving hype that fantasy owners should buy into?

Chris Godwin (WR – TB)
“Godwin is going to make some noise this preseason and turn some heads with his involvement in this Bruce Arians led offense. The offseason hype train has already begun rolling quite a bit, but I expect it to only intensify as Week 1 of the NFL season approaches. Godwin is an incredibly talented receiver in an amazing opportunity in Tampa Bay, which almost always leads to fantasy football success. The Bucs are going to be a pass-happy team already with Arians at the helm, but combining that with a poor running game and a porous defense, the Bucs could be first in the league in passing attempts when all is said and done. With only Mike Evans and O.J. Howard as the other established receiving options there, Godwin is going to see all the targets he can handle. He’s an automatic pick for me in the back of the 4th round.”
– Kyle Yates (The Fantasy Footballers)

“If I’m buying Jameis Winston continuing a process of making better decisions (on the field, anyway) that began last season and thriving under new head coach Bruce Arians, then I kinda have to drink the Chris Godwin Kool-Aid. The third-year WR took major leaps last season in targets, receptions, yards, and TDs, and having shown he can handle a bigger workload, there’s little reason to think he won’t have more stacked on his plate. Apart from Mike Evans, and while acknowledging that TEs O.J. Howard and Cameron Brate will combine for a solid target share, what other Bucs WR is going to make a major impact? Breshad Perriman? Meanwhile, Tampa Bay could struggle to run the ball and keep opponents off the scoreboard, so there should be plenty of occasions for Winston to drop back and look for a receiver he can trust.”
– Des Bieler (The Washington Post)

David Montgomery (RB – CHI)
“I had my eyes on David Montgomery prior to the NFL draft, and he landed in a pretty good situation in Chicago with the departure of Jordan Howard and the versatility of Tarik Cohen. His draft price has increased from an 11th round pick post-NFL Draft to now a 4th or 5th round pick, but I’m still on board considering the RB landscape. I thought Montgomery was the most skilled RB coming out of the draft, and hopefully the scheme in Chicago lets him showcase that.”
– Donald Gibson (Fantasy Fusion)

Chris Carson (RB – SEA)
“I’m going with Carson, who underwent some sort of knee procedure this offseason. That was the only concern there was, but knowing he was there and participating at the start of training camp, all concerns were gone. Beat reporters are saying the same thing they did last year, that he’s far and away the best running back on the field. If we knew he’d be healthy for all 16 games, I’d bank on him finishing as a top-12 running back. ”
– Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros)

George Kittle (TE – SF)
“I think that Kittle is a good bet repeat what he did last season and perhaps even improve. Jimmy GQ will be back under center which is good for everybody. Kittle ranked 2nd among tight ends in team target share (135 targets). He’s being hyped as a possible TE1 overall finish and I’m on board with that.”
– Matthew Bowe (Razzball)

Rashaad Penny (RB – SEA)
“With just 85 carries in 2018, Penny was third in line for carries in Seattle’s backfield behind Chris Carson and Mike Davis. Heading into 2019, Davis is now in Chicago and Carson had a knee scope this offseason on the same knee that forced him to miss two games a year ago. The Seahawks were the NFL’s run heaviest teams in 2018, by a wide margin, calling 537 rushing plays. The next closest team was Baltimore with 495 (the Packers ran the ball a league-low 334 times, just for some perspective). Penny provides a speedy punch to the Seahawks power rushing attack and even if Carson is healthy, Penny will have standalone value and enormous potential if Carson does indeed miss action. Coming off the board in the 7th round, I’d much rather set my sights on Penny compared to other RBs with similar ADP like Derrius Guice.”
– Bill Enright (FFChamps)

Geoff Swaim (TE – JAC)
“Swaim is roaring up draft boards thanks to the Josh Oliver injury news and the word out of camp that Swaim looks great. While he hasn’t reached top 12 status and almost certainly won’t, I believe he is still worth drafting if you whiff on the top tight ends. After those six, the position should be all-streaming and no one has a better matchup in Week 1 than Swaim against the Chiefs’ secondary. I’ll be using him everywhere then dumping him for the Week 2 top streaming tight end option.”
– Bobby Sylvester (FantasyPros)

Q2. What one player is currently overhyped and why will he disappoint fantasy owners this season?

Damien Williams (RB – KC)
“I’m very nervous about Damien Williams heading into 2019, especially as a second-round pick. Williams featured in the final five games of the 2018 regular season, and only two of those games resulted in more than 59 scrimmage yards. It just so happened that those two games were the semifinals and finals of the fantasy playoffs where he posted 123 and 140 scrimmage yards, respectively, and added three total touchdowns. Prior to 2018, he never averaged more than 4.0 yards per carry in a single season. I realize that situation is everything with running backs, and he’s in a good one on the Chiefs offense, but I just can’t let two extremely-well-timed games at the end of a season completely overshadow the years of mediocrity we’d seen from him previously.”
– Donald Gibson (Fantasy Fusion)

Robby Anderson (WR – NYJ)
“There’s too much buzz on Robby Anderson right now, as he’s a player who’s flashed in spurts, but never consistently. He finished as a WR3 or better in just 28.6 percent of games last year. Just how bad is that? Mohamed Sanu finished in that territory in 43.8 percent of his games. Keep in mind that Anderson’s totals were without Le’Veon Bell and Jamison Crowder on the roster, which won’t help him see a bigger target share. We haven’t even talked about the negative impact Adam Gase has had on position players. If you draft him inside the top-30 receivers this year, you’ll be disappointed. ”
– Mike Tagliere (FantasyPros)

James Conner (RB – PIT)
“Based on his ECR of ninth overall (half-PPR), I’d guess James Conner will be a bit disappointing because I think the Steelers will get other RBs involved. Specifically, I’m thinking of Jaylen Samuels, who shined when Conner was out with injury and who made a strong case to at least be in the mix on passing downs. Then there’s Benny Snell, more of an early-downs thumper upon whom Pittsburgh spent a fourth-round pick, no small price. The Steelers have been known to prefer a bell-cow back, but they might have noticed that Conner appeared to wear down last season, and new running backs coach Eddie Faulkner could push for a change in approach. That would be the same Faulkner who, not for nothing, coached Samuels at N.C. State.”
– Des Bieler (The Washington Post)

Sammy Watkins (WR – KC)
“Am I really about to hate on the ‘No. 2′ wide receiver on the NFL’s best offense? Yes I absolutely am. For starters, while Watkins may be the Chiefs’ No. 2 wide receiver in name, he’s certainly not No. 2 in targets. Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce will both get twice as many targets as Watkins. Heck, even Damien Williams may be ahead of Watkins on Patrick Mahomes’ target pecking order. Then there’s Watkins injury history. He hasn’t played a full 16 game season since 2014. He missed six games in 2018 for the same foot/ankle injury that has seemingly plagued him throughout his career. I simply can’t justify drafting a five-year veteran that hasn’t topped 41 catches or 600 yards in the last three years and when considering his 6th round ADP, it makes me remove Watkins entirely off my board.”
– Bill Enright (FFChamps)

Patrick Mahomes (QB – KC)
“When everything is taken into account regarding his current ADP and the inevitable regression facing him, my answer has to be Patrick Mahomes. Only two other QB’s in history have thrown more than 50 TDs in a season (Manning & Brady), which makes Mahomes’ chances of repeating that feat unlikely. Don’t get me wrong, Mahomes is insanely talented and he deserves to be the first QB taken off the board in your drafts this season. But when taking into account that you have to draft Mahomes in the top of the 3rd round, you’re giving up a valuable roster spot at another key position. With Mahomes bound for TD regression and the price you have to pay to get him, there are going to be some disappointed fantasy owners this season that wish they would have spent their draft capital elsewhere.”
– Kyle Yates (The Fantasy Footballers)

Miles Sanders (RB – PHI)
“Sanders is going too high in drafts and the majority of experts are extremely excited about him right now. I won’t argue with his talent level, as he was my top running back going into the draft, but the landing spot was awful. It isn’t as though Jordan Howard is like being trapped behind Christian McCaffrey. Rather, it has to do with Head Coach, Doug Pederson, who will use a three or even four-back committee as he always has, no matter how talented Sanders may be. This has the Ajayi hype written all over it.”
– Bobby Sylvester (FantasyPros)

David Montgomery (RB – CHI)
“Montgomery looks like he’s going to be a good running back for the Bears, especially from the training camp videos that we’ve seen. Despite that, I’m not ready to spend an early 4th round pick on him like his current FantasyPros ADP suggests. Tarik Cohen is still going to have a similar role with this team and Mike Davis will likely get some backfield work as well. I’d rather have Josh Jacobs or Devonta Freeman a few picks earlier.”
– Matthew Bowe (Razzball)

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