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.
After officially being announced as active for today’s game against the Cleveland Browns, Bears star wideout Rome Odunze, who’d been dealing with a foot injury coming into the week, aggravated it during pre-game warmups. He’s since been ruled out for the game. This is obviously a massive blow to the Bears’ passing game, which has […]
December 14, 2025
Bank of America Stadium gets weird late in the season, when bad blood and bad math start sharing a locker. Carolina is still playing for something real, and the week has carried that quiet urgency. New Orleans is playing spoiler, which is always when divisional games get sharp. The Saints have lived in close losses […]
December 14, 2025
Levi’s Stadium in December has a way of stripping games down to intention. San Francisco is chasing posture, not permission, trying to look like itself again before the calendar tightens. Tennessee arrives carrying the strange energy of a bad record with nothing left to hide. One team wants control and clarity. The other wants to […]
December 14, 2025
Lumen in December is a volume test. The noise bends protections, the air bites, and every visiting offense feels rushed before the ball is even snapped. Seattle has built this season around that edge, stacking defensive stops until opponents crack. Indianapolis arrives with its season already bruised, now carrying the strangest late-year pivot imaginable. Below […]
December 14, 2025
SoFi on a December afternoon doesn’t feel cold, but it still sharpens edges. This is where structure gets tested. The Rams come home with control of the NFC in sight, playing fast and clean in a building designed for offense. Detroit arrives carrying urgency, not comfort, chasing a wild-card berth while patching together a secondary […]
December 14, 2025
NRG is the kind of dome where a contender can make a bad team feel small. Arizona walks in battered and searching, with the season already drifting into evaluation mode. Houston walks in with real January ambition and a defense that has started to look inevitable. The week’s noise lives in the injury cloud around […]
December 13, 2025
Paycor in mid-December feels like a confessional. Cincinnati already throttled Baltimore once, that 32–14 Thanksgiving humiliation that splintered belief on both sidelines. Since then the Bengals have lived under a spotlight, with Joe Burrow wondering aloud whether the grind still feels fun. The Ravens arrive dragging a month of stalled possessions and questions about whether […]
December 13, 2025
Foxborough in December turns every breath into steam and every division snap into something heavier than normal. Buffalo walks back into this building chasing its old crown while a new Patriots regime guards the door. New England has stacked wins, built belief, and now faces the neighbor that has owned this division lately. The Bills […]
December 13, 2025
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse turns this into one of those neutral games that clearly leans one direction. West Virginia brings an 8-3 grinder profile and a defense that has already made a habit of holding teams in the fifties. Ohio State rolls in as a top-end Big Ten offense with a local crowd and a star […]
December 13, 2025
Desert Financial gets tempo and contrast more than brand juice. Santa Clara rolls in at 8-2 looking like a WCC contender that already handled real trips to Xavier and Minnesota. Arizona State is 8-2 as well, finally playing with some cohesion ahead of a Big 12 grind, and they lean into chaos more than structure. […]
December 13, 2025
Finneran Pavilion gets one of those early-December games that still feels like an old Big East argument. Villanova comes home from a humbling night in Ann Arbor, still sitting comfortably in the rankings but newly reminded they’re mortal. Pittsburgh arrives at 5-5, the full spectrum on film from upsetting Ohio State to getting bullied by […]
December 13, 2025