Predicted Score: Vikings 27, Bears 20

Chicago: The Bears aren't the most consistent team in the world, but they've shown an ability to surprise just when you're ready to relegate them to the scrap heap. And as I said in my waiver column, Kyle Orton could be one hell of s sleeper if you're a desperate man. You know that the Vikings will run the ball a lot, and that the Bears can't run the ball, so I'm expecting an early Vikings lead and a whole lot of Orton-Berrian. When he started for the Bears in '05, Orton didn't have the weapons in the passing game he does now. So I'm going on onto the fence (with my underwear caught on the top) with Orton as a "consider" and tossin' in Berrian. In a battle of the Adrian Petersons, anything is possible. I just hope we're not zapped into another dimension when they both take the field during the pregame.

• Start: RB Adrian Peterson (PPR only), WR Bernard Berrian
• Consider: RB Adrian Peterson (standard scoring), QB Kyle Orton, WR Muhsin Muhammad, WR Devin Hester, K Robbie Gould
• Sit: TE Desmond Clark, TE Greg Olsen, Bears D/ST

Minnesota: It's a terrible thing that Adrian Peterson the rookie dumped on so many of his owners with that stinky stat line last week. Thankfully, I had a bye in my work league, the only one in which I own the little bugger. But there are other things to consider this week than All Day AP - since there's no way you bench him (unless he's inactive). Namely - Messrs. Tarvaris Jackson, Chester Taylor and Sidney Rice - marginal plays but definitely "ponder fodder" in deeper leagues. I kinda like Rice, I but I like Taylor better and Jackson the worst of all three. Even though they all play different positions, do you catch my drift?

• Start: RB Adrian Peterson
• Consider: QB Tarvaris Jackson, RB Chester Taylor, Sidney Rice
• Sit: TE Visanthe Shiancoe, WR Troy Williamson, WR Bobby Wade, whomever else they're parading around wideout these days.