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QB Griese, TE Lee among top pickups of the week

Without question, RB Jesse Chatman will attract the most free-agent interest in your league this week after what happened to Ronnie Brown. However, if you're looking deeper in this monster bye week (six teams are off), you have to give Bears QB Brian Griese and Packers TE Donald Lee a long, hard look.

Griese has been a fantasy standout since taking over for Rex Grossman. In four starts, he's averaging a hair over 300 yards per game with eight touchdown passes, including two straight 300-yard games. Even more compelling is his Week Eight opponent. In six games this season, only one quarterback has failed to throw for multiple TD passes against the Lions, and that was the inherently challenged Tarvaris Jackson. Detroit allowed 313 yards and two scores to Josh McCown, 381 yards and four TDs to Donovan McNabb, 248 yards and two TDs to Jason Campbell and 316 yards and two TDs to Jeff Garcia. Heck, Griese himself posted 286 and a pair vs. Detroit...in his first start in two seasons. Clearly, Griese makes for a solid replacement for idle QBs Tony Romo, Kurt Warner or Matt Hasselbeck.

Tight end is an even more troubling spot this week, with Tony Gonzalez, Jason Witten, Todd Heap and Alge Crumpler all taking the week off. Lee is already well on his way to career marks in every relevant receiving category in the Packers' pass-heavy offense, and he may not have to share TE looks with Bubba Franks (knee) this week. Again, it's the matchup that's even more persuasive. Lee draws the Broncos, who were just torched by Heath Miller for two scores last week. It gets even better than that, though. In their last three games, they've ceded an astounding six TE touchdowns to Miller, Matt Spaeth, Antonio Gates and Dallas Clark. 

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