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.
It sort of felt pre-destined, right? All of the Carolina +5.5 bettors on DraftKings Sportsbook would certainly tell you as much. Writ large was the prophecy of Andy Dalton’s ($5,300) glorious return as a starting quarterback against a white-hot Raiders team. It was a letdown spot for the Raiders after their Week 2 stunner over […]
September 24, 2024
Here at DKN, we’re not just focused on the DFS and the season-long fantasy implications of a given NFL week. We’re also keeping a close eye on how performances each week affect the market for futures bets at DraftKings Sportsbook. To wit, I’m going to be tracking all the shifts in the Rookie of the […]
September 24, 2024
It’s about that time of the year! We’re starting to reassess our draft-day investments with the rose-tint on our lenses all but faded. Unfortunately, dudes about whom we were perhaps overexcited now have a sample size of three regulation games of production. That’s enough to start making, as Raiders HC Antonio Pierce put it, “business […]
September 24, 2024
Update: 9/23 11:36 a.m. ET – According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Justin Herbert underwent X-Rays on his aggravated high ankle sprain following yesterday’s game. The results came back negative. This, of course, is a bit of a non-update; he sounds more week-to-week than day-to-day. All that’s left to do for Herbert fans and fantasy […]
September 22, 2024
Back with the second edition of my High-Flying Hangar series, in which, weekly, I’ll check in on fantasy-relevant pass-catchers to evaluate growing trends in opportunity volume. As a reminder: We all know that a wideout’s final line might not be indicative of just how involved he was in the gameplan, how often his talent won […]
September 20, 2024
Earlier this afternoon, Reddit u/S_Squar3d posted a breakdown of returns on investment from the top twenty picks in fantasy football from the last decade. His conclusion is the title of the post on the r/fantasyfootball subreddit: The #1 fantasy draft pick is statistically the worst pick to have in the past 10 years. I can […]
September 19, 2024
I’ve noticed among my cinema-frequenting friends that perhaps the biggest theatergoing story of the last year is Glenn Powell. He’s bringing families back to the Movies (physical) with Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters. During a time when folks feel like Hollywood is searching for that feel-good thoroughfare again—a dizzy and bustling Broadway for blockbusters—Glenn Powell […]
September 19, 2024
(Pierce caught that pass in the featured image, by the way. That felt like a fitting way to begin a propaganda piece about him.) Alec Pierce kicked down the door of the 2024 fantasy football season when he caught the 60-yard touchdown heard ’round the world from Anthony Richardson in Week 1. I broke down […]
September 19, 2024
We should consider ourselves lucky that Darnell Mooney—still only 26 years old and on just his second NFL team—had such a paltry line (1-15-0) against the Steelers in Week 1. It made it so that his impressive showing of three receptions for 88 yards and a touchdown last week against the Eagles appeared as if […]
September 18, 2024
It hasn’t exactly been the pyrotechnic start to his rookie campaign for which Caleb Williams and all Chicago Bears fans had been hoping. The Bears are 1-1 through two weeks, so it’s not all bad—especially big-picture. But anyone who watched the Bears’ loss to the Texans on Sunday Night Football—so, like, everyone—has some bonafide game […]
September 18, 2024
As a fan of the first Reeves Batman film, and, more importantly, a die-hard Colin Farrell fan, I couldn’t be more excited for tomorrow’s release of HBO’s spinoff series The Penguin. And it’s not because I’m hungry for more stories of spandex-clad paladins blinking through the multiverse just to bludgeon narrative integrity. Like so much […]
September 18, 2024