Crew TNF
The Evers Bowl
Five Crew franchises are starting seven players tonight across four matchups.
🎣 DTTW vs 🕳️ TBH
🎣 DTTW trails 5–9 in the Evers Bowl™, and most of that is one run. From the 2017 9th Place Game, 74.1 to 97.3, through 2022, 🎣 DTTW lost seven straight to 🕳️ TBH, the last of them by 1.2. It answered with three straight wins, including the 2023 consolation meeting. 🕳️ TBH took the latest, 132.1 to 158.8.
🎣 DTTW is 1–4. Three defending champions had started that badly before, and all three were 🍆 ZJ: in 2010, 2011 and 2024.
🕳️ TBH is coming off a comeback. Last Monday Davante Adams needed 16.7 to win it, and he scored 21.1.
J.K. Dobbins starts at running back tonight for 🕳️ TBH. He scores 7.2 a game for it, the fewest for any of the six franchises that have started him. 🕳️ TBH also starts the Broncos D/ST. 🎣 DTTW is starting a kicker, and nobody else.
⏪ RTRO vs 👨🍳 M&R
⏪ RTRO leads 11–7 and has won the last three. The third was last season’s 3rd Place Game, 133.6 to 126.4, which qualified ⏪ RTRO for this season’s MWM and eliminated 👨🍳 M&R from it.
⏪ RTRO starts nobody tonight, but it is in the story anyway. Jaxon Smith-Njigba starts at receiver for 👨🍳 M&R, and ⏪ RTRO drafted him twice: 89th in 2023 and 97th in 2024. He was on its roster for five weeks and it never started him once. In 2024 ⏪ RTRO let him go after week 1, and by week 3 he was ⚜️ K&G’s, as he had been for most of the second half of 2023. ⚜️ K&G started him in 14 of the last 15 weeks of 2024, and in week 9 he scored 37.6, his first 30-point game anywhere in the record. 🦞 Doug took him 27th last year. 👨🍳 M&R took him 5th overall this year, and he has scored 28.1 a game for it, including 42.7 in week 2.
👨🍳 M&R also starts the Seahawks D/ST.
⚽ TPC vs ⚜️ K&G
⚽ TPC trails 11–12. ⚜️ K&G has won the last three meetings, and the only postseason one, the 2021 3rd Place Game, 124.3 to 155.5.
⚜️ K&G is the 36th franchise to start a season 1–4, and 🎣 DTTW is the 37th. Five of the first 35 reached the Playoffs, and one of the five was ⚜️ K&G in 2018.
⚜️ K&G starts Emanuel Wilson at running back. He has two Crew starts: 12.8 for ⚜️ K&G last week, and 28.1 for 🕳️ TBH in 2025. ⚽ TPC starts nobody.
🍆 ZJ vs 🧪 CLI
The series is level at 11–11, and almost none of it has been close. One meeting in twenty-two was decided by less than ten points. The average margin is 45.8, the widest of any pairing that has met more than ten times. The latest was 49.7 to 140.6, and that is the lowest score in 🍆 ZJ’s history.
🍆 ZJ is 3–2 after two straight wins, which is already more than it won in all fourteen regular-season games of 2025.
🧪 CLI starts nobody, and it is still enjoying Monday. Matthew Stafford needed 22.8 to bring it back against 👨🍳 M&R, and he scored 42.3. It was Stafford’s 121st Crew start, and it was the career best Stafford performance in Crew history.
Jaylen Waddle starts at receiver for 🍆 ZJ. 🍆 ZJ drafted him 79th last year and 42nd this year, and he scores 11.0 a game for it.
🍆 ZJ got here on a Monday-night miracle. It finished Sunday 25.1 ahead of 💨 LTF with nobody left, and @BotHasStat gave 💨 LTF a 30% chance of coming back with James Cook III and the Bills D/ST. Cook scored 24.6, and the Bills defense finished at −1.0. 🍆 ZJ won 114.7 to 113.2, by 1.5, the sixth-narrowest win in its history. The box score has the whole weekend, play by play.