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.
Week 2, really, only tooketh away. Very little giveth, outside of, say, Alvin Kamara. And the hits kept coming when we learned, just before Monday Night Football’s tilt between the Falcons and the Eagles, that Deebo Samuel would miss a few weeks with a calf strain. The injury apparently occurred late enough in Sunday night’s […]
September 17, 2024
Will I get ridiculed for this? Maybe. But, for as long as I’ve played fantasy football, I’ve believed that the D/ST position (for leagues that include it) can be a swing slot on your roster. But not if you drafted, like, the San Francisco 49ers D/ST in the eleventh round. That’s just spendthrift behavior. And, […]
September 17, 2024
After Week 2’s stunning Falcons comeback over the Eagles on Monday Night Football, Joe Mixon and Dameon Pierce owners got some good news before their heads hit their pillows. According to Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston, neither Mixon’s ankle injury nor Pierce’s hamstring strain is considered whatsoever serious. This is fantastic news for not […]
September 17, 2024
Short answer: maybe! However, word from Jefferson and HC Kevin O’Connell is that the injury appears, at least for now, to be quite minor. There have been no official practice reports yet, though, so nothing is whatsoever official. In the third quarter of Sunday’s tilt against the 49ers, Jefferson was blocking for Ty Chandler on […]
September 16, 2024
What’s Monday good for, if not for a heaping plate of crow set in front of you by the football gods. And you can’t leave the table until you’ve licked your plate clean. Here’s what I said about Marvin Harrison, Jr. last week in my NFL Rookie of the Year Odds Tracker for Week 2 […]
September 16, 2024
You can’t. But you must. At least that’s how it feels. Especially with the walking boot tweet, and watching the way the Cardinals’ front seven obliterated the Rams’ patchwork, wet-paper-bag offensive line. Many Cooper Kupp owners expected a fully-healthy sixty minutes yesterday, with some absurd percentage of the Rams’ target share, and somewhere in the […]
September 16, 2024
UPDATE 9/16 12:43p.m. EST: In his press conference with the media on Monday, KOC offered the following update on Jefferson, according to the team’s official website: “Justin did come in today feeling pretty good, which was a positive based upon the initial quad contusion that happened on that run play,” head coach Kevin O’Connell said […]
September 15, 2024
Week 2 marks the advent of season-long fantasy managers evaluating juicy matchups to possibly exploit. This, of course, is instead of rolling with your studs. Ex. If you’ve got A.J. Brown going against Sauce Gardner, you may have doubts about whether or not Brown could perform to his highest level, given the difficult matchup. Every […]
September 13, 2024
Gosh, I don’t know what gets me more excited about Friday the 13th: all the literary associations of the numerology as it pertains to ancient texts and lore, or the absolute suggestion of brutal, scream-happy gore that this day evokes. I want to talk about the cultural legacy of Friday the 13th, specifically as it […]
September 13, 2024
Week 2 marks the advent of season-long fantasy managers evaluating juicy matchups to possibly exploit. This, of course, is instead of simply rolling with your studs no matter your player’s opponent. However, if you’ve got A.J. Brown going against Sauce Gardner, you may have doubts about whether or not Brown could perform to his highest […]
September 13, 2024
Week 2 marks the advent of season-long fantasy managers evaluating juicy matchups to possibly exploit. This, of course, is instead of rolling with your studs. Ex. If you’ve got A.J. Brown going against Sauce Gardner, you may have doubts about whether or not Brown could perform to his highest level, given the difficult matchup. Every […]
September 13, 2024