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 one smells like heat. The Cowboys bring the league’s most efficient offense to the doorstep of a division rival with turnover swagger and a rookie quarterback who hasn’t blinked yet. Dallas owns the top EPA/play offense in football (+0.187), leads the league in passing EPA, and drops 29.7 points per game—third-best in the NFL. […]
October 19, 2025
This one smells like heat. The Cowboys bring the league’s most efficient offense to the doorstep of a division rival with turnover swagger and a rookie quarterback who hasn’t blinked yet. Dallas owns the top EPA/play offense in football (+0.187), leads the league in passing EPA, and drops 29.7 points per game—third-best in the NFL. […]
October 19, 2025
SoFi will glow electric with the Rams overseas, and two exciting seasons will bend a little under the lights. The Los Angeles Chargers (4-2) invite the Indianapolis Colts (5-1) into a game that crackles with consequence. Jim Harbaugh’s vision has taken root, with Greg Roman’s fingerprints on the physical blueprint and a weekly insistence on […]
October 19, 2025
The air will sting, the lungs will tighten, and the noise will climb as the Giants step into 5,280 feet and a city that demands composure. Denver just flew home from London with a 13–11 win and nine sacks that squeezed the Jets into negative passing yards, a defensive flex that still left doubts about […]
October 19, 2025
U.S. Bank Stadium won’t whisper on Sunday; it will tremble, because the subplots crackle as loudly as the stakes. Philly’s own Lane Johnson called the Eagles offense “predictable” after the Giants loss, and the word hung in the air like cordite. Carson Wentz, quarterback, stares at the same winged helmet that once defined him, now […]
October 18, 2025
Midseason is where the sly take the throne without a trumpet. The calendar yawns, the standings blur, and we move like shadows at noon—quiet hands stacking tiny edges. Waiver whispers. Film-room lantern light. A tweak to the call sheet, a trade that looks boring on the timeline but tilts the board. In fantasy, it’s FAAB […]
October 18, 2025
Week 7 arrives with velocity and quirks: an early 9:30 a.m. ET London curtain-raiser at Wembley—Rams–Jaguars—that compresses routines and expands fantasy windows, especially with Puka Nacua and Rob Havenstein ruled out, funneling first reads toward Davante Adams in a condensed script. The slate breathes differently stateside, too: Chiefs–Raiders carries a double-digit spread (KC -12.5, total […]
October 18, 2025
Dusk will pour over the Arroyo Seco and the Rose Bowl should feel seismic. Homecoming banners ripple, and two seasons hang in the warm Pasadena air: Maryland searching for late-game poise after back-to-back gut-punch finishes, UCLA riding the adrenaline of an interim surge. It’s the first Maryland–UCLA meeting since 1955 and only the third ever, […]
October 18, 2025
The Swamp starts to shimmer before dusk, a blue-and-orange kiln swallowing breath and doubt. Homecoming is sold out again—sixteen straight—and the noise swells like thunder trapped in a bowl. Florida staggers in hungry after a brutal month; Mississippi State brings a second-year offense wired for sparks and a defense that swears it has grown up. […]
October 18, 2025
Kroger Field exhales blue dusk and bourbon heat as Texas strides in with a defense that squeezes throats and time. Kentucky counters with Mark Stoops’ stubborn posture, a bell-cow back, and the hum of a night crowd that believes in attrition. Texas just stifled Oklahoma and recovered its swagger with a punt-return dagger, three interceptions, […]
October 18, 2025
Under a high Florida sun, The Bounce House vibrates and sways, all drums and echo. UCF staggers in from three straight Big 12 losses, still dangerous and fast. West Virginia arrives bandaged, stubborn, and 4–0 all-time in this series. That record hangs over Orlando like a dare. The Knights want a clean break. The Mountaineers […]
October 18, 2025