Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
Minges Coliseum gets a sneaky fun one tonight. Appalachian State shows up with a Sun Belt contender’s defensive profile and a schedule that has already bounced them through Central Michigan, Ohio State and UNC Asheville. East Carolina is trying to survive a front-loaded slate that included Michigan State and St. Bonaventure while breaking in a […]
December 11, 2025
The Horizon opener in Indianapolis feels more like a summer run than a conference grinder. Green Bay has lived out of a suitcase against Kansas, Minnesota, Yale and Massachusetts, and now walks into an IU Indy team that treats every night like an AAU showcase. The line is basically a coin flip with Green Bay […]
December 11, 2025
Hilton Coliseum turns Cy-Hawk into a pressure cooker, not a rivalry graphic. Iowa State is 9-0, No. 4 in the polls, fresh off humiliating No. 1 Purdue 81-58 on the road. Iowa walks in at 8-1 with a glossy record, but its first real stress tests exposed how thin the shot creation is behind Bennett […]
December 11, 2025
Raymond James doesn’t need frost to feel bite; a short-week divisional game brings its own pressure system. Tampa Bay carries a fragile 7-6 division lead, more record than rhythm, and keeps stalling where the grass shrinks. Atlanta staggers in at 4-9, outgaining opponents on some Sundays and still losing the plot when the field compresses. […]
December 11, 2025
A Wednesday evening proving ground: VCU trying to prove last March’s A-10 sweep wasn’t a blip under a new staff, New Mexico trying to show its 7-2 start travels out of The Pit. The Rams are 6-3 and 4-0 at home with that familiar VCU buzz building around a top-50 efficiency profile. The Lobos roll […]
December 10, 2025
Wednesday night in Raleigh gives us a new-look heavyweight trying to reestablish itself and a mid-major that never blinks at pedigree. NC State under Will Wade is still figuring out how its transfers fit, but the bones of a top-tier ACC offense are obvious. Liberty shows up as a rare true-road Quad 1 shot, a […]
December 10, 2025
Hall of Fame Classic moves the Commonwealth feud west to Springfield, with Boston College sitting 5-5 and UMass at 6-3 on a three-game heater. This is their first meeting since 2014, when UMass won 71-62, and the line has BC laying -1.5 on a neutral floor with a total around 141.5. The pro-town crowd gets […]
December 10, 2025
Jadwin gets a sneaky interesting exam-week game: Princeton trying to stop a slide, Merrimack arriving with real confidence and an identity. Princeton has dropped nine of twelve but is 3-0 at home, while Merrimack sits 5-6 overall, 2-0 in the MAAC and just 1-4 away from North Andover. The market has nudged toward the Tigers, […]
December 10, 2025
SoFi under the lights turns into a route-running clinic whenever Ladd McConkey starts rocking defenders out of their leverage. Two eight-win teams are trading narratives, but Justin Herbert’s safest answer in the chaos is still No. 15 breaking option routes and glance digs on time. While everyone chases A.J. Brown fireworks and Herbert’s fractured left […]
December 8, 2025
SoFi gets two 8-4 teams tonight, but they are headed in different directions. Philadelphia opened the season as a bully, then spent the last month stuck under 21 points in every game. Los Angeles looked disjointed early, then quietly stacked a 3-1 stretch with only one clunker in Jacksonville. The Eagles bring the bigger brand […]
December 8, 2025
De’Von Achane suffered a rib injury in the second quarter of Week 14’s game against the New York Jets. He’s now headed to the locker room. With him out, the backfield should shift to a more traditional split between Ollie Gordon and Jaylen Wright. Gordon likely handles most of the early-down work and short-yardage situations; […]
December 7, 2025