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.
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
Hear me out here: what if you could catch lightning in a bottle before the weatherman even reported the storm? That’s the idea with this column, which we’ll publish weekly here at DKNetwork. It’s Saturday. Official injury designations for your Sunday DFS and season-long fantasy lineups are writ. In season-long, particularly, you might be looking […]
September 21, 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
(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
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