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.
UPDATE: Vidal has returned to the game against the Jaguars, and is out there for the latest Chargers’ offensive drive. Early in the second quarter, Kimani Vidal stayed on the sideline for a Chargers offensive drive and was clearly working through an injury on the stationary bike. He’s now questionable to return with that thigh […]
November 16, 2025
UPDATE: Jordan Love has officially returned to the game against the Giants on Sunday. Unless he leaves in the second quarter again, only to not return in the second half, he is no longer eligible for DraftKings’ new Early Exit program. Jordan Love is officially questionable to return with a shoulder injury he suffered on […]
November 16, 2025
UPDATE: Packers QB Jordan Love (shoulder) has returned to Sunday’s game vs. the Giants. As the first quarter wound down, Jordan Love scrambled to advance the Green Bay offensive drive and took a hard hit to his left shoulder. He’s been in the blue medical tent, and is now headed to the locker room to […]
November 16, 2025
UPDATE: Calvin Ridley has been ruled out with the ankle injury he suffered in the first half. All Ridley backers on DraftKings Sportsbook are eligible for the Early Exit program. It’s been a nonstop-disappointing season for Titans WR Calvin Ridley, whose official return from injury on the calendar was today’s game against the Texans. Early […]
November 16, 2025
Midnight is where Week 11 really lives. The league sees records and graphics; we see the glow of tablets under hoodies, the Rams’ midnight jerseys as a reminder that real work happens when the cameras exhale. We burn quiet film-room oil while timelines chase highlights, sanding tendencies, nudging splits, shaving tells off motion and depth. […]
November 16, 2025
Acrisure will feel claustrophobic before kickoff. Pittsburgh sits 5–4, clinging to a one-game AFC North lead despite dropping three of the last four. Cincinnati comes in 3–6, off a bye and a 47-point defensive faceplant against Chicago, staring at single-digit playoff odds. This rivalry still carries Burfict-era scars and Burrow–Roethlisberger echoes, every late shove and […]
November 15, 2025
This one’s more like a team audit more than a celebration. Jacksonville sits 5–4, fresh off blowing a nineteen–point fourth-quarter lead to Houston and staring at a season that alternates signature wins with maddening collapses. Los Angeles arrives 7–3 on a three-game win streak, 6–1 against AFC opponents, already talking seeding while the Jaguars are […]
November 15, 2025
MetLife in mid-November feels more like a reset than a showcase. New York just fired Brian Daboll after another collapse, slid the headset to Mike Kafka, and now hands Jameis Winston the keys with the season stuck at 3–6. Green Bay arrives 7–2, carrying a top ten scoring margin and a defense that allows 19.6 […]
November 15, 2025
U.S. Bank Stadium turns this rematch into a controlled-pressure chamber, and Bears/Vikings walks in loaded with context. Chicago arrives at 6–3, sitting in the NFC’s sixth seed and riding late-game heroics after another fourth-quarter comeback against the Giants. Minnesota sits at 4–5, just outside the playoff bracket, fresh off a flat nineteen-point showing in Baltimore […]
November 15, 2025
Orchard Park in mid-November feels like a season-level verdict for the Bills and Buccaneers both, apiece at 6–3. Buffalo chases the Patriots in the AFC East while Tampa protects a thin NFC South cushion and legacy. Cold air, possible rain-snow mix, and a steady WNW wind promise real strain on timing and tackling. Josh Allen […]
November 15, 2025
Fresno gets a proper November test, not a formality. Wyoming brings its bruised record and blue-collar edge down from Laramie, still chasing bowl air and absolutely built to turn sixty minutes into a fistfight. Fresno State counters with a veteran locker room that’s tasted recent hardware and wants this season to land closer to standard […]
November 15, 2025