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.
Week 12 tight end play feels like squeezing the season’s nerve endings. Fantasy brackets are on tiebreakers, real locker rooms are circling seeding paths, and the guys in the middle third either become answers or vanish. Arrowhead hosts Colts–Chiefs with Kansas City suddenly chasing, not protecting, playoff position—Travis Kelce’s option routes and red-zone pivots are […]
November 19, 2025
Week 12 tightens the noose. Fantasy schedules hit the must-win stretch while real locker rooms start counting tiebreakers on the whiteboard; every quarterback choice now sits on two playoff races at once. The AFC top seed is a knife fight—Patriots and Broncos both at 9-2, Colts lurking one step back—so every throw in Chiefs-Colts or […]
November 19, 2025
November in the MAC is where dreams and damage control share a sideline. Ohio walks in at 6–4 and 5–0 at home, still threading the MAC-title needle after letting Western Michigan slip away. UMass arrives 0–10, 0–6 in its first MAC run, carrying an average loss margin north of four touchdowns and little else. One […]
November 18, 2025
Late-season MAC nights don’t care about rankings; they expose which programs are actually climbing and which are just treading water. Akron arrives with the sting of the Wagon Wheel still fresh, an overtime collapse that also hinted at real offensive ceiling. Bowling Green jogs out under home lights with a four-game skid, a fired coordinator, […]
November 18, 2025
Jake Ferguson is the hinge (and safety valve, if we want to keep with engineering terms) of this passing game. In a roofed stadium with no weather excuses, his work is all nuance and timing. When Schottenheimer wants stability, the ball flows inside to No. 87 on sticks, seams and crossers that keep Dak on […]
November 17, 2025
George Pickens is the edge of the blade for Dallas on Monday. Under Allegiant’s clean air and fast track, his game becomes about space, timing and nerve, not wind or sleet. Schottenheimer’s offense tilts toward the perimeter when he wants stress, and Pickens owns that job with 764 yards and six touchdowns on 49 grabs, […]
November 17, 2025
Ashton Jeanty is the spine of Monday night for Las Vegas. Allegiant’s roof strips out weather noise; this becomes a game about repetition and resolve. Chip Kelly’s offense has almost no explosive cushion, sitting 31st in points and 30th in total yards, so Jeanty’s job is pure accumulation. Dallas just rebuilt its front after allowing […]
November 17, 2025
Dallas walks in off a bye with grief still fresh, trying to turn mourning for Marshawn Kneeland into purpose and structure, not just speeches. The Raiders stagger in from another prime-time gut punch, a blocked punt and a missed kick costing them Denver and a coach his job. Under the lights it is less fireworks, […]
November 16, 2025
Up by one score in the third quarter, Falcons’ QB Michael Penix took an awkward hit on an incomplete pass, and left the game to head to the blue medical tent. He was evaluated there, and has since been slapped with a questionable tag with a knee injury. Penix was having a fantastic game today, […]
November 16, 2025
UPDATE: Jaylen Warren has, for the time being, returned to Sunday’s game. Early in the third quarter, Jaylen Warren took a hard hit on the below play and left Sunday’s game against the Bengals with a leg injury. He’s currently in the medical tent being evaluated by the Pittsburgh training staff. For all the ballyhoo […]
November 16, 2025
UPDATE: Justin Herbert has returned to Sunday’s game against the Jaguars after the second half. As the second quarter wound down to its final seconds and the Chargers were in two-minute offense, Justin Herbert took a sack in Jaguars’ territory. Herbert left the game, and Trey Lance finished the Chargers’ drive as the teams went […]
November 16, 2025