Crew TNF: MWM Quarterfinals!

It’s MWM Week!! The 2026 MWM opens tonight with 🧪 CLI against 🍆 ZJ in the MWM Quarterfinal, and seven Crew franchises are starting eight players across five matchups.

🧪 CLI is the MWM 4 seed as last season’s 5th-place finisher. 🍆 ZJ is the MWM 5 seed as last season’s Consolation Ladder winner, which earned it this MWM berth. The winner gets 🎣 DTTW, the top MWM seed earned by winning the Championship last year, in next week’s MWM Semifinal. 🍆 ZJ won last week’s meeting, 102.1 to 116.7.

🧪 CLI is the only franchise to win two MWMs, and it has won its last five MWM games! The first of those MWM medals came from the MWM Quarterfinal too, as the MWM 5 seed in 2021, and it took that MWM Final by 0.7, 85.3 to 84.6.

🍆 ZJ has four Championships but has never won an MWM game. It lost in the 2022 MWM Quarterfinals to 💨 LTF, and in 2024, as the top MWM seed, it lost its MWM Semifinal to ⚜️ K&G.

The MWM 5 seed has won four of the six MWM Quarterfinals, and two MWM Quarterfinal winners have gone on to win the MWM: 🧪 CLI in 2021 and ⚜️ K&G in 2024.

Colston Loveland is the only player from either side tonight. 🍆 ZJ starts nobody.

🧪 CLI vs 🎣 DTTW

🧪 CLI trails 7–17, and it is 1–9 against 🎣 DTTW since 2019. 🎣 DTTW has won the last five, the latest in last season’s Playoff Quarterfinal, 110.3 to 192.6. That is the widest margin in the series, and 🎣 DTTW went on to win the ⭐ Championship.

Colston Loveland starts at tight end for 🧪 CLI. He scores 4.3 a game for it, and 🧪 CLI is 4–1 in his starts anyway. 🎣 DTTW starts Drake Maye at quarterback. His 50.5 in week 5 is the 11th-highest score by any Crew starter in a loss, out of 12,728, and 🎣 DTTW is 1–4 in his starts.

💨 LTF vs 🕳️ TBH

The series is level at 6–7. The only postseason meeting was the 2022 Championship, 120.3 to 113.5, which is 💨 LTF’s only ⭐ title.

🕳️ TBH has won two straight Mondays from behind. In week 5 Davante Adams needed 16.7 and scored 21.1. Last week @BotHasStat gave it a 24% chance against 🎣 DTTW, and it won 106.9 to 105.1.

DeMario Douglas starts at receiver for 🕳️ TBH. It drafted him 176th in 2024 and has never started him until tonight. 💨 LTF starts the Bears D/ST: 5.8 a game for 💨 LTF in fifteen starts, against 8.7 for everyone else.

🦞 Doug vs 🦅 Pwns

🦅 Pwns leads 3–3 in five meetings. 🦞 Doug won the latest by 0.6, 137.3 to 136.6.

🦅 Pwns is 5–1 for the first time and alone at the top of the league. It starts nobody tonight. 🦞 Doug is one game behind, on a three-game winning streak.

Caleb Williams starts at quarterback for 🦞 Doug, which is 3–0 in his starts. He scores 27.4 a game for it, against 19.8 for everyone else. D'Andre Swift starts at running back, and his 34.2 in week 1 is his best for 🦞 Doug.

⚜️ K&G vs ⏪ RTRO

⚜️ K&G trails 11–15, and in December it has never won. The two have met five times in the postseason, and ⏪ RTRO won all five. No franchise has a worse postseason record against a single opponent.

⏪ RTRO has alternated wins and losses all season, which makes tonight a win. Luther Burden III starts at receiver. ⏪ RTRO drafted him twice, 130th last year and 48th this year, and he has scored 7.0 a game for it. ⚜️ K&G starts nobody.

⚽ TPC vs 🏎️ M&N

⚽ TPC trails 8–10. 🏎️ M&N has won the last five meetings, three of them in the postseason, and ⚽ TPC is 1–4 in postseason meetings.

A.J. Brown starts at receiver for ⚽ TPC, and this is his week. He has played week 7 five times in the record and scored 28.1, 27.7, 29.7, 18.9 and 29.3. That is 26.7 a game, against 15.2 in every other week. 🏎️ M&N starts nobody.