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.
Rivalry games tend to reveal who a team really is, and this one arrives at a telling moment for both NFC South outfits. The Atlanta Falcons bring a defense playing at a top-five clip and a run game that dictates terms; the Carolina Panthers counter with a pass-heavy identity, a home opener, and the urgency […]
September 20, 2025
The meeting between well-what-happened-here-to-our-fearless-leader-quarterback-so-devastatingly-and-so-soon teams! Carson Wentz and Jake Browning, respectively, face off as the starters helming the offenses for the Vikings and the Bengals. U.S. Bank Stadium hosts two unbeaten streaks colliding in unusual form: the Minnesota Vikings have never lost to the Cincinnati Bengals at home, and the Bengals have not dropped a […]
September 20, 2025
Sunday in Cleveland lines up as trench football dressed in attrition. Green Bay storms in unbeaten and sparklingly-so, scoring twenty-seven a game while strangling opponents to fifteen and a half, and they’ve yet to turn the ball over. The Browns stagger in at sixteen and a half per game, yielding twenty-nine, their top-ranked yardage defense […]
September 20, 2025
America’s Game of the Week it is, somehow, not! But it’s the Week 3 marquee tilt in our hearts. Because the Rams’ return to Lincoln Financial Field feels like unfinished business. January’s divisional round ended with Philadelphia clinging to a 28–22 win, and Los Angeles walked away knowing they had chances. Both teams arrive at […]
September 20, 2025
Hard Rock Stadium hosts one of the fiercest September showdowns on the calendar: Miami versus Florida, a rivalry that still hums with bad blood. The Hurricanes have leaned on balance, leaning into a bruising run game while keeping the defense fresh and disruptive. Florida enters with volatility—raw quarterback talent, playmaking wideouts, and a defense that […]
September 20, 2025
Ladies and gentlemen, Week 3 of both the 2025 NFL and fantasy football seasons marks this calendar year’s Autumnal Equinox. Indeed, all that summer stardust on our most shimmering pinpricks in the night sky—R.J. Harvey, Kaleb Johnson, Ashton Jeanty, ugh—have dulled a bit as the midsummer haze has dissolved and revealed a crisp September twilight. […]
September 20, 2025
Greenville turns the lights up for a legit measuring-stick game, and the market has settled on BYU -6.5 with a total of 49.5 and an East Carolina moneyline of +196. The numbers say clash of identities. The Cougars lean run-first on 61.6% of snaps with a +0.30 EPA per rush, while the Pirates live in […]
September 20, 2025
Lawrence stages a high-leverage conference opener with Kansas laying 12.5 and the total parked at 54.5, and the angles point to points. The setups matter. Kansas arrives off a bye after a 42-31 shootout at Missouri, where the offense punched in 31 but the defense allowed 595 yards and 261 rushing yards, a corrective focus […]
September 20, 2025
Bobby Dodd stages a classic danger spot for a newly ranked team: momentum humming, number inflated, opponent overlooked. Georgia Tech carries a perfect 3-0 mark and a 3-0 ATS run into a line that’s ballooned to -24.5 with a total of 52.5, while Temple arrives 2-1 and far more organized than the Oklahoma scoreline suggested. […]
September 20, 2025
A tobacco-road matinee with real stakes arrives in Durham, and it sets up as a clash of tempo, identity, and nerve. NC State has played the heavier schedule to date (strength of schedule 19th) and comes in with a sturdier overall profile (34th), while Duke has leaned into an air-it-out persona that can dazzle or […]
September 20, 2025
A first-ever meeting in Orlando usually hums with curiosity; this one hums with contrast. The building will be loud, the air heavy, and the spread sits at UCF -7 with a total of 46.5. One side plays quick and explosive, the other more measured and opportunistic. Below is my prediction and pick for College Football […]
September 20, 2025