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.
Hey now! We hit big on the Colts D/ST last week. And, if you listened, you faded the Chargers D/ST and avoided getting stuck with a 4.0 fantasy point performance in standard leagues. We’re back for the Week 4 edition of D/ST Start ‘Em/Sit ‘Em. This time (and going forward) with two for each category. […]
September 26, 2024
On Sunday, Rome Odunze’s was one of those performances that was almost more relieving than exciting. At least for me it was, but I’m biased—there might not be a rookie in the league, short of Ladd McConkey, I’m more excited about than Rome. And we finally saw almost all he can do in Week 3. […]
September 26, 2024
Let’s run it a bit earlier this week to see whether or not you all actually pick up some of the folks on this list before Week 4’s Sunday slate. And, judging by our success last week, you should. Last week, we hit on: Quentin Johnston, Jauan Jennings, Khalil Shakir, Jailen Nailor, Brenton Strange (kinda!), […]
September 26, 2024
… so far! Important, that bit. But not important enough to make it into the title. Because, really, what Shakir is doing is truly remarkable. And this matters for Buffalo right now. Shakir’s team value (more on that later) is the best in the league among wideouts by a long-shot. Having the trust of now-veteran […]
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
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
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