The odds are pretty good that this week is Championship Week for your fantasy football league. If you're playing for big money or you're playing for bragging rights, congratulations to you on a successful fantasy football season. You likely don't need a "sleeper" to get you over the hump this week. . .but just in case you do, I'm giving you one.

And, as you can judge from the picture above, I'm doing it. I'm straight-up, flat-out doing it. You can call it a lame attempt at a reverse jinx or whatever else you want, but I'm doing it.

Your fantasy football sleeper for this week is Rex Grossman. Yes, that Rex Grossman, quarterback of the Washington Redskins.

Yes, I know that Rex Grossman isn't a very good quarterback. We know that from his days in Chicago. However, the Vikings' pass defense is as terrible as we've ever seen it, allowing the average quarterback to put up a quarterback rating of 110.6 over the course of the season. Granted, this team has faced a murderer's row of quarterbacks this season, but still, the pass defense has been atrocious.

In the Redskins' last game against the New York Giants, Grossman did manage to throw two interceptions, and has thrown 18 interceptions this season to 13 touchdowns, but he also hasn't seen the Vikings' defense this season, and on the occasions where Jared Allen and Kevin Williams don't manage to get to him, he's going to have plenty of time to tear up the Minnesota secondary. Is it going to equate to a win for the Redskins? Not necessarily, but it should give him an opportunity to put up some fairly decent numbers, and hey. . .fantasy football doesn't care if your players win or lose, right?

Like I said, if your fantasy football team is still playing at this point of the year, there's a pretty good chance that you're set at quarterback. But, if for any reason you're not and you need somebody at the position, Rex Grossman might be a pretty good idea. He's only owned in 19% of all Yahoo! Fantasy Football Leagues, so if you want him, the odds are pretty good that he's all yours.

Yes, it's fantasy football playoff time, ladies and gentlemen, and if you need some help for your team this week, I'm going to give you someone that can help you at what I feel is the most overlooked position for fantasy football, that being the tight end spot.

I know that not all leagues require players to start a tight end, and unless you get one of the truly elite ones, a lot of the time they're interchangeable based on match-ups. With this being playoff time, you need all the advantages you can get, and you can get one this week by grabbing Jake Ballard of the New York Giants.

According to the good folks at Yahoo! Fantasy Sports, Ballard is owned in half of all of their leagues, which means there's a decent chance that he's available in yours. This week, the Giants play the Washington Redskins, who have had their share of difficulties against good tight ends. . .see what Rob Gronkowski did to them last week. I know Ballard is no Gronkowski, because nobody is, but with LaRon Landry likely still being out for the Redskins, it's going to hamper their ability to keep the tight end contained, and for a guy like Ballard that's averaging about 16 yards a catch, that's pretty good news.

If you have a potentially close match-up in your fantasy playoffs and you don't have an A+ guy at tight end already, do yourself a favor and go grab Jake Ballard off of the waiver wire.

I gave you Toby Gerhart as a sleeper last week, and if you managed to grab and/or start him in your league, you were rewarded with 91 rushing yards and 42 receiving yards, a pretty decent afternoon for a non-premium running back at this point in the season. In most leagues, this is the last week of the regular season, and some leagues have already started their playoffs. So, what's out there to be had at this point?

Well, this week the Oakland Raiders travel to Green Bay to take on the Packers. While the Raiders have had their issues at the wide receiver position, the Green Bay pass defense has been pretty terrible as far as yards allowed this season, ranking second-to-last in the league. Yards are a big part of fantasy football, and they've been giving them up in bunches. So, one of Carson Palmer's favorite targets could potentially provide you a boost this week, and there's a 99% chance that he's available in your league.

Wide receiver Chaz Schilens, who had a touchdown reception when the Raiders came to the Metrodome a few weeks back, has seen his catches increase in each of the last two weeks, including six last week against the Miami Dolphins for 89 yards. With the Raiders' receiver issues, Schilens could see a lot of targets on Sunday afternoon. As I mentioned, he's only owned in 1% of all leagues, according to the folks at Yahoo! Fantasy Football.

He's a bit of a "deep sleeper," but in some leagues that's about all that's left. If you're in need of a wide receiver, roll with Chaz Schilens. You get to root for your fantasy team and root against Green Bay (like you weren't doing that already anyway).

Our pick from last week, Oakland tight end Kevin Boss, unfortunately did not play "like a boss" last week, winding up with only one catch for eight yards. In my defense, nobody told me that the Raiders decided that they were just going to let Sebastian Janikowski handle all the scoring, but never the less, I hope that my pick this week is a bit more fruitful for your team, should you choose to pick him up.

And, you know what? I'm staying home for this one. Yes, I'm going with a member of our own Minnesota Vikings.

Yes, the Denver Broncos are much improved on defense during their recent winning streak, I'll grant you that. But their defense is still susceptible up the middle, and that's why I think Toby Gerhart can redeem himself after a rough week against the Atlanta Falcons. As long as the Vikings don't try to run that stupid stretch play with Gerhart too many times (because the damn thing NEVER, EVER WORKS) and are content to just let him pound away at the middle of the Denver defense, Toby should do alright.

With Adrian Peterson on the shelf and pretty much nothing but Percy Harvin left in the receiving corps at this point, it's going to be up to Gerhart to try to take some heat off of Christian Ponder. I think he rises to the challenge this week. According to Yahoo! Fantasy Football, Gerhart is only owned in 38% of all leagues, so if you could use a boost at running back, I think you'd do alright to add Toby Gerhart to the fold this week.

Usually we do these later on in the week, but with the early games on Thanksgiving Day, some leagues might require you to have your lineups set a little earlier, so we're going to throw it out there now.

Last week's sleeper, Doug Baldwin of the Seahawks, did okay. . .three catches for 60 yards is decent enough for a bye week replacement in most leagues, but definitely not the best we've done this year. For our sleeper this week, we're going to go to a position that we really haven't touched on for most of the year, that being the tight end spot.

In fantasy football, having a solid option at the tight end spot can be like starting an extra player. After all, with so few quality options at the position, not every team in a 10 or 12-team league is going to have a quality tight end. So, if you can get one in your lineup, you can really help yourself out.

Our pick for this week is going to be Oakland Raiders' tight end Kevin Boss, who is only owned in 4% of all Yahoo! Fantasy Football Leagues. Boss had his best game of the year this past Sunday against our own Minnesota Vikings, catching five passes for 37 yards. This week, the Raiders will be hosting a Chicago Bears team that has allowed the most catches, touchdowns, and fantasy points to tight ends this season. With Carson Palmer getting more and more comfortable in the Oakland offense and the possibility that Jacoby Ford will remain sidelined, Boss has a pretty good chance at generating solid points for your football team this weekend.

Unless you have Tony Gonzalez or Jason Witten at the tight end spot in your lineup already, the odds are pretty good that you could do worse than taking a flier on Kevin Boss. After all, with no more bye weeks, owners need to start looking for players that can potentially help them in the playoffs. If the Raiders' offense can start clicking, Boss could easily be one of those kinds of guys. So, feel free to. . .

Go on waivers (like a Boss!)
Pick him up (like a Boss!)
Drop some loser (like a Boss!)
Start him Sunday (like a Boss!)
Score some points (like a Boss!)
Thank me later (like a Boss!)
Win your league (like a Boss!)
Send me half (like a Boss!)

We got another one right last week when we recommended Cowboys' wide receiver Laurent Robinson, as he responded with three catches for 73 yards and two touchdowns, one of which was a 58-yarder which could have gotten you extra points if your league rewards longer plays. We've still been a bit hit-or-miss this season, so let's hope we can get another hit with this one.

There aren't a heck of a lot of reasons to watch the match-up between the Seattle Seahawks and the St. Louis Rams on Sunday afternoon, even if we weren't watching the Vikings/Raiders game at the same time. However, for fantasy football purposes, there might be some gold in them there hills.

Former Viking Sidney Rice is the name that most people immediately think of when Seattle Seahawks receivers are mentioned. The name after that is probably Mike Williams, the guy that was a huge bust in Detroit that has resurrected himself in Seattle under his former college coach, Pete Carroll. However, neither of those two guys leads the Seahawks in receiving yards.

No, that distinction goes to Doug Baldwin, a man the Seahawks signed as an undrafted free agent out of Stanford this off-season. The 5'11", 190-pound rookie has 29 receptions (tied with Rice for the Seahawks' team lead in that category) for 484 yards and two touchdowns this season, and has a chance to do some damage against a Rams' team that has had all sorts of injuries and other issues in the secondary. He had just one catch in Seattle's victory over the Baltimore Ravens last week, but it was a 50-yard catch, and he's averaging a robust 16.7 yards/catch this season.

According to our friends at Yahoo!, Baldwin is currently only owned in one out of every four leagues, so if you have a receiver on a bye (like one of the receivers from the Saints or the Steelers) and need to plug a hole in your lineup, you should be able to grab Doug Baldwin if you'd like to take a gamble with him.

Well, our pick for last week was okay. . .not great, but okay. Chris Ivory got more carries for the New Orleans Saints last week against the Atlanta Falcons (15) than Pierre Thomas and Darren Sproles combined (8 for Thomas, 4 for Sproles), and managed 67 yards for his efforts. Not great, but a solid effort for a guy as a bye week replacement. He'll probably get worked more into the lineup for the Saints as the weeks progress, but that doesn't do you a whole lot of good this week.

No, this week, we're going to go with a guy at the wide receiver spot that could be able to help you against a fairly porous pass defense.

In the last two games, Cowboys' wide receiver Laurent Robinson has taken full advantage of an injury that has sidelined Miles Austin. He has five catches and a touchdown in each of his last two games, including a 70-yard touchdown catch against the Philadelphia Eagles a couple of weeks ago and a 6-yard scoring catch against the Seattle Seahawks last week. Austin is going to be out a couple more weeks, and Robinson will be getting the start across from Dez Bryant as a result.

The Bills' pass defense isn't very good, as they are allowing 260.4 passing yards a day, putting them 26th in the NFL in that category. Playing on the fast track of Jerryworld, it looks like something that Tony Romo can take advantage of, and it could be beneficial for you to pick up Robinson at this point.

According to Yahoo!, Robinson is currently owned in 44% of all their leagues, which means there's a chance he's available in yours, too. Go have a look and see if you could use an upgrade at wide receiver. Keep in mind, because of the strangeness of the NFL schedule, there are no byes this week, but you can always upgrade somewhere on your roster, I'm sure.

Meat Loaf used to say that two out of three ain't bad. Well, with last week's sleeper, I did manage to get two out of three. I gave you the right position, and I gave you the right team. . .I just gave you the wrong player. Tennessee Titans' wide receiver LaVelle Hawkins had just three catches for 18 yards on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts. The better pick probably would have been his teammate Nate Washington, who had two touchdowns on the afternoon, despite having only 37 total yards.

Undaunted, we get back on the horse and try again this week, since the Vikings have the week off and we can look around the league at things.

This week's sleeper pick comes from the game between the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers down in the Big Easy tomorrow afternoon. The Buccaneers are coming off of a bye, having lost to the Chicago Bears in jolly ol' England the previous week, while the Saints were the victims of what might be the upset of the year thus far, as they fell to the previously winless St. Louis Rams. The Bucs have been really up and down this season, and have been a markedly better team at home than they are on the road. They even beat these same Saints at home, 26-20, back in Week 6.

But this game is in New Orleans, and that could spell bad things for the Buccaneers. The Bucs' defense is 29th in the NFL in total yardage, which is a bad sign when you're going against Drew Brees and company. But rather than going with a member of the Saints' passing game, I'll be going with a running back that could take big advantage of the fact that New Orleans will again be without Mark Ingram.

Chris Ivory, who spent the first six weeks of the year on the Physically Unable to Perform list, rushed for 716 yards last season as a rookie, averaging 5.2 yards per carry. The Saints are going to try to work him into the offense with Ingram missing the game with a foot injury, and he could be someone that you could plug into a flex spot. He might be splitting carries with Pierre Thomas, but he could still be a decent play.

Ivory is only owned in 1% of all Yahoo! leagues, according to their numbers, so he could be a decent pick-up not only for this week, but going forward as the Saints work him more and more into the offense.