Happy Black Friday! This is the eighth edition of our weekly newsletter, which is intended to be a 5-minute read from across the sports landscape, with an emphasis on fantasy sports, sports betting, and company updates as we build the Propellor Daily Fantasy Sports platform.

Fun Fact: There’s so many fun facts about football on Thanksgiving that there’s almost too many to list. ESPN has a great write up about the history of NFL games on turkey day that you can find here. Some of our favorites are:

1: Number of teams to never play on Thanksgiving Day: Jacksonville Jaguars

4: Winless teams on Thanksgiving: Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Jaguars

6: Most passing touchdowns in a single Thanksgiving game, held by Bob Griese (1977) and Peyton Manning (2004).

6: Thanksgiving Day shutouts since the merger in 1970. There has not been a shutout since the Cowboys shut out the Miami Dolphins in 1999.

8.5: Most career sacks on Thanksgiving, held by former Lions DE Ezekiel Ansah.

11: Most career Thanksgiving receiving touchdowns, held by former Lions WR Calvin Johnson.

18: Most career touchdown passes on Thanksgiving, held by former Cowboys QB Tony Romo and former Lions QB Matthew Stafford.

895: Most career receiving yards on Thanksgiving, held by former Cowboys TE Jason Witten.

Here’s what we’ve got for you today:

• Thanksgiving Day Recap

• Special Black Friday Game Precap

• Week 11 NFL Fantasy Leaders

• Interesting Week 12 Player Markets

• Propellor Sports Company Update

Thanksgiving Day Recap

Final Scores:

Green Bay Packers 29, Detroit Lions 22

Dan Campbell’s band of believers hit a speed bump on their road to the promised land yesterday. That speed bump was Jordan “Who is Aaron Rodgers?” Love and the Green Bay Packers. Love threw for a career high 3 tuddies, going 22 for 32 and 268 yards. The Lions offense looked a tad stale, not being able to do much against a feasting (Thanksgiving pun #1) Packers D until late in the game.

Dallas Cowboys 45, Washington Commanders 10

Not much to write about here. This game was about as competitive as a post Thanksgiving dinner round of charades against your 90 year old grandma. It stunk! Commanders were no match for Dallas’s stingy D and high-powered offense. The Cowboys fried them like a turkey (Thanksgiving pun #2), so bad that Washington fired Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio and DB Coach Brent Vieselmeyer today, leaving them without any leftovers (Thanksgiving pun #3).

San Francisco 49ers 31, Seattle Seahawks 13

Not exactly the division clash we’re used to seeing between these two NFC rivals. SF continued to steamroll their opponents on both sides of the ball, sacking Geno 6 times and picking him off once while CMC tallied 2 more touchdowns. The niners looking more and more like the cream corn (Thanksgiving pun #4) of the crop.

Black Friday Game Pre-cap

Extremely movie trailer guy voice: Miami dolphins. New York Jets. Black Friday. Football. First ever. Only one will survive. Who will come out on top?

Sadly, this game had all the makings of a great game pre Aaron Rodgers injury. Alas, the Jets are in total free fall and giving the ball to Todd Boyle after Zach Wilson has played like Aaron Rodger if he was still on ayahuasca. If the Jets can somehow pull it off, we will eat an entire crow.

Editor’s Note: If you are reading this, it’s likely either during or after this game. The author may or may not be hungover from an obscene amount of tryptophan and White Claws and is hoping you, dear reader, will pretend this went out earlier.

Week 11 NFL Fantasy Leaders

Trevor Lawrence, QB, Jacksonville Jaguars (32.2 points)

After a very underwhelming week 10, T-Law heard your sh*t talking and came roaring back against a mid Tennessee defense. The Prince Who Was Promised went off for 262 yards, 2 passing td’s, and 2 rushing td’s and no INT’s. Shouts out to anyone who benched him in fantasy but still won their matchup (Me. Shouts out to me, the guy writing this).

Calvin Ridley, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars (31.1 points)

Calvin “The Gamblin’ Man” Ridley was the main recipient of Trevor Lawrence’s offensive outburst, securing 7 catches on 9 targets for 102 yards and 2 td’s. He even added an 18 yard scamper to boot. Is he back back? All signs point to yes.

Tyreek Hill, WR, Miami Dolphins (30.6 points)

The cheetah torched the budding Vegas defense for 10 catches, 146 yards and a TD, only missing one target. Somehow, some way, Tyreek remains impossible to defend and a weekly fantasy stud.

Interesting Week 12 Player Markets

Our patented Highly Complicated Algorithm Predicting Machine, or HiCAPreM (we are working on a better name) continues to either be red hot or ice cold, as we went 0-3 last week. Which means we’re due for another win sweep here.

Lamar Jackson OVER 59.5 Rushing Yards

With Mark Andrews sidelined for the foreseeable future, OC Todd Monken will look to extract every ounce of talent from this offense against a Charger’s D thats giving up the second most yardage to WR’s in the league. Look for The Human Highlight Reel to do as much damage as he can, however he can.

Tyreek Hill UNDER 0.5 Touchdowns

Look. The Jets stink, as noted before. BUT, their defense is still elite, with their secondary being #1 in the league against the pass. Their secondary will put the clamps on Tyreek in the endzone and force the Dolphins to beat them any other way… which they likely will.

Another Editor’s Note: Well this one died in the second quarter before this newsletter went out but instead of picking a different one we are going down with the ship. Because that’s the type of people we are. Wrong but principled.

Alvin Kamara OVER 31.5 Receiving Yards

SOMEONE has to win the NFC south. And the division leading Saints at 5-5 look like the most average team to do it. The Falcons secondary is no slouch, 2nd in the league against the pass, so look for Derek “Dink and Dunk” Carr to throw a ton of check downs to his security blanket RB.

Propellor Sports Company Update

Beta will be here before you know it. Promise.

See you next week!