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.
Boulder hums beneath the flat fall light, Folsom Field framed in gold and noise. It’s October football with consequence—the kind that cuts through breath and sound alike. Iowa State’s ranked steadiness meets Colorado’s restless need for redemption, and somewhere between the mountains and the noise sits a season’s turning point. Deion Sanders’ team has drifted […]
October 11, 2025
Autumn light bends across Midtown Atlanta, and Bobby Dodd hums before kickoff. The air feels taut, the kind that remembers every collision these two schools have delivered since the Techmo Bowl became ACC ritual. Georgia Tech stands 5–0 and ranked 13th, a program finally leaning into its modern identity. Virginia Tech arrives wounded but not […]
October 11, 2025
The air in Oxford feels electric before noon—clear sky, bright sun, and the kind of hullabaloo that only comes with high stakes. Washington State arrives from Pullman carrying three wins, two long flights, and one enormous task. Ole Miss, 5–0 and ranked fourth in the nation, stands poised on the edge of its own momentum, […]
October 11, 2025
Autumn light slides over the banks of the Ohio River, and Nippert Stadium’s a madhouse before noon. Cincinnati has always worn October well, its crowd steeped in rhythm and hostility, its football team precise and blunt. The Bearcats enter 4-1, their confidence sharpened by a four-game win streak that includes a wire-to-wire beating of Iowa […]
October 11, 2025
East Lansing hums with fall static and urgency. Michigan State returns home from two bruising road losses, desperate to stabilize a season that still carries bowl hope. UCLA arrives cross-country off the shock of October—a 42–37 stunner over Penn State that flipped every assumption about its ceiling. Spartan Stadium carries the contrast like voltage: a […]
October 11, 2025
The hinge weeks always feel different. By Week 6, the mirages fade—the dead-zone draft picks, the ghost targets, the fragile backfields that looked whole in August. Injuries have started to redraw the fantasy map: Alvin Kamara’s ankle turned Wednesday’s practice report into a full-blown referendum on the Saints’ offense; Omarion Hampton’s injury ripped open a […]
October 10, 2025
The hinge weeks always feel different. By Week 6, the mirages fade—the dead-zone draft picks, the ghost targets, the fragile backfields that looked whole in August. Injuries have started to redraw the fantasy map: Alvin Kamara’s ankle turned Wednesday’s practice report into a full-blown referendum on the Saints’ offense; Omarion Hampton’s injury ripped open a […]
October 10, 2025
The hinge weeks always feel different. By Week 6, the mirages fade—the dead-zone draft picks, the ghost targets, the fragile backfields that looked whole in August. Injuries have started to redraw the fantasy map: Alvin Kamara’s ankle turned Wednesday’s practice report into a full-blown referendum on the Saints’ offense; Omarion Hampton’s injury ripped open a […]
October 10, 2025
The hinge weeks always feel different. By Week 6, the mirages fade—the dead-zone draft picks, the ghost targets, the fragile backfields that looked whole in August. Injuries have started to redraw the fantasy map: Alvin Kamara’s ankle turned Wednesday’s practice report into a full-blown referendum on the Saints’ offense; Omarion Hampton’s injury ripped open a […]
October 10, 2025
The hinge weeks always feel different. By Week 6, the mirages fade—the dead-zone draft picks, the ghost targets, the fragile backfields that looked whole in August. Injuries have started to redraw the fantasy map: Alvin Kamara’s ankle turned Wednesday’s practice report into a full-blown referendum on the Saints’ offense; Omarion Hampton’s injury ripped open a […]
October 10, 2025
Fort Collins draws a chill and a reckoning under under Friday night twilight. Fresno State rolls in with momentum, a veteran calm, and a run game that leans on you snap after snap. Colorado State counters with bruised pride and a home crowd aching for a turn, hoping fresh legs and a steadier pocket can […]
October 10, 2025