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.
This season, Thanksgiving night in Baltimore feels less like a holiday and more like a reckoning. The Ravens clawed back from one and five to six and five, winning with defense and Derrick Henry instead of weekly Lamar heroics. Cincinnati staggers in at three and eight, four straight losses, dragging what might be the league’s […]
November 26, 2025
Week 13 tight end play feels like rummaging through leftover chaos. Thanksgiving box scores are already baked into standings, fantasy brackets hang on tiebreakers, and every seam route now leans on two playoff races at once. Some lineups are nursing fragile leads from Thursday explosions; others are staring at a deficit that only a double-digit […]
November 26, 2025
Week 13 wakes up in a food coma. The turkey slate already blew holes in scoreboards, fantasy lineups are dragging leftover points around like heavy plates, and Sunday is where every decision either cleans the mess or smears it deeper. Leads feel fake. Deficits feel louder. Every quarterback pick now leans against both a fantasy […]
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving in Detroit always feels like a family photo, and this one finally matters again. The Lions are chasing the Bears and Packers, trying to plant their flag on their own holiday. Green Bay walks in with Jordan Love playing like the division’s newest grown-up, even while the offense sputters lately. Detroit limps in without […]
November 26, 2025
Las Vegas keeps Auburn on the clock a little longer for a game that refuses to slow down on paper. St. John’s stays in the desert after pushing Iowa State to the final possession and then lighting Baylor on fire. Auburn just lived both extremes out here too, getting run over by Michigan and then […]
November 26, 2025
How about we have ourselves a paydirt Turkey Day? Stepping in here for the venerable Jeff Pratt once more, who’s taking some well-earned time off for the holiday. Me? What can I say—can’t keep myself away from the good old American pastime that are touchdown celebrations on Thanksgiving. We’ve got three games for tomorrow—Lions vs. […]
November 26, 2025
Alabama’s second night in Vegas feels like a character check. They just ran with Gonzaga for thirty minutes, then got buried under a wave of glass and paint touches. UNLV is turning right back around too, but the pressure is different. The Rebels let a winnable Maryland game slip after halftime and now get a […]
November 25, 2025
Las Vegas gives them the same floor, the same tired walls, and a very different kind of pressure. Oregon watched Auburn sprint away late. San Diego State got shoved out of the gym by Michigan. Now the two wounded brands share a neutral arena that suddenly feels like a truth serum. This is where you […]
November 25, 2025
Maryland walks in off a workmanlike win over UNLV, still buzzing from a new coach and a frontcourt finally back to full strength. Gonzaga arrives having just gone ten rounds with Alabama and leaving the Tide buried under missed boxouts and bruises. Both teams know the bracket prestige runs through this game. The number at […]
November 25, 2025
Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan get a chilly Tuesday in Ypsilanti with the Michigan MAC Trophy hovering over everything. Rynearson’s gray turf feels a little stranger under lights when November wind cuts sideways across the track. The Broncos arrive one win from their first conference title shot since 2016; the Eagles arrive bowl-less but defiantly […]
November 25, 2025
Bowling Green and UMass meet with different kinds of embarrassment hanging over them. The Falcons are collapsing after a 3–3 start; UMass is trying to dodge a winless MAC return. Pride, jobs, and winter film sessions sit on this chilly Amherst afternoon. Below is my prediction for CFB Week 13’s football game between the UMass […]
November 25, 2025