Let’s start with the best game of the day, NO/ATL, where Michael Turner (30 carries, 114 yards, TD) and Jason Snelling (14 carries, 62 yards) wore down the interior of the Saints’ rush defense to triumph in overtime. A few things to note here: 1) Anyone writing off Tony Gonzalez (8-110-1) is making a mistake, 2) Jeremy Shockey (8-78-1) looks like he’ll get some of the short work originally designed for Reggie Bush, and 3) Lance Moore (6-149-2) can still play, and may have usurped Devery Henderson (2-23) and Robert Meachem (1-5) to be the Saints’ WR2. More likely, Drew Brees will continue to take what the defense gives him, which means any of these WRs could go off on any given day.

Over in Baltimore, the Browns were down Jerome Harrison today with a thigh injury, so Peyton Hillis was the feature back and he didn’t disappoint (to the tune of 29 touches for 190 yards and a TD). Baltimore’s rush defense isn’t as good as its reputation, so I tweeted earlier in the day that Hillis was a decent RB3/flex start, and he turned in an outstanding game. Ben Watson (5-47-1) has posted 12-125-1 on the season and is turning into a decent TE2 option. On the other side of the ball, Anquan Boldin (8-142-3, 11 targets) and Joe Flacco (262 yards, 3 TD) are totally in sync. Flacco isn’t as bad as he looked last week against the Bengals and he isn’t as good as he looked this week against the Browns.

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- Vernon Davis (7-96-2) had a huge game, but I doubt there were too many fantasy owners that had the balls to start him.

- Tony Gonzalez (1-16) was a non-factor on Sunday.

- Brent Celek (8-104-1) is looking like an every week starter at TE. He has good hands and the Eagles need a good second receiving option after DeSean Jackson.

- Greg Olsen (5-44-1) rewarded those owners that stuck with him after a couple of shaky outings.

- I like Zach Miller (2-17), but JaMarcus Russell is so inconsistent at QB that it’s tough to start Miller in any given week.

- With the way that Indy feeds the ball to Dallas Clark (7-62-1), it wouldn’t be at all surprising if he finishes the season as fantasy’s TE1, assuming he can stay healthy.

See below for links to the QB, RB and WR positions.

- Santana Moss finally had a big game (9-172-1) and rewarded those owners with the balls (or the desperation) to stick with him after two bad outings.

- Laurent Robinson (2-26) and Donnie Avery (3-12) were very quiet against the Packers even though the Rams trailed most of the game. Robinson may be seriously hurt, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If he has an MCL injury, he could be out for a while.

- There doesn’t seem to be a clear WR1 in Minnesota as Bernard Berrian, Sidney Rice and Percy Harvin each had four catches.

- With Wes Welker out, I was expecting a big PPR game for Julian Edelman (3-20), but he didn’t deliver.

- The Pats did a nice job of taking away Roddy White (4-24), which is something they’ve been doing well all season.

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- Kevin Smith (19 touches, 119 yards) had a nice game, but left early with a shoulder injury.

- Clinton Portis was dinged up heading into Sunday’s game, but was still surprisingly quiet (13 touches, 48 yards) against the Lions.

- Ryan Grant (26 carries, 99 yards) struggled early, but got it going a bit in the second half to finish with a decent ypc (3.8).

- Frank Gore left the game after only one carry, and Glen Coffee (25 carries, 54 yards) didn’t have much success against the Williams Wall. It looks like Gore will be out at least two weeks with a high ankle sprain.

- Michael Turner (15 carries, 56 yards, TD) never could get it going, but he did score.

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- Aaron Rodgers got off to a shaky start, but finished with great numbers (269 pass yards, 2 pass TD, rush TD).

- Jason Campbell (327 yards, 2 TD, INT) had a predictably nice game against the Lions.

- Marc Bulger was knocked out of the game, but Kyle Boller (164 yards, 2 TD, INT) came in and played pretty well.

- Eli Manning (161 yards, 2 TD) continues to be coolly efficient in the Giants’ passing game.

- Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson combined for 115 yards passing, zero TD and four INT. Ouch.

- Drew Brees (172 yards) was surprisingly quiet against the Bills.

- Chad Pennington (54 passing yards) was knocked out of the game, and Chad Henne (92 yards, INT) didn’t do very well in his place.

Be sure to check back later for the RB, WR and TE positions.