Our Team
Establish The Run was created by Evan Silva and Adam Levitan with the goal of giving subscribers the most intelligent, thorough, timely and accurate fantasy analysis on the internet.
FOUNDER
Evan Silva
Evan is the preeminent analyst in the fantasy football industry. During his 12 years as Rotoworld’s senior football editor, Evan staked his claim as a thought leader with incredibly well-researched and uniquely analyzed takes. The crown jewel of his work is the award-winning Matchups Column, which thoroughly examines every single skill player and game each week. Evan is a DFS and best-ball enthusiast, while also competing in high-stakes season-long leagues.
FOUNDER
Adam Levitan
Adam is one of the most respected DFS football analysts and podcasters in the space. His podcast has been downloaded more than 20 million times and offers market moving DFS analysis each week. He won multiple Fantasy Sports Writers Association awards while at Rotoworld before focusing on DFS full-time in 2015. Not only is Adam a DFS analyst, but he also plays nearly year round, specializing in cash games.
HEAD OF NBA
Drew Dinkmeyer
Drew has been playing DFS professionally since 2013, racking up a million-dollar win, a dozen six-figure scores and the respect of the industry. He specializes in NBA and NFL, combining data-driven analysis and expert subjective insight at the highest level.
SENIOR NBA ANALYST
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher has been covering fantasy basketball full-time since 2012. During that span he’s emerged as the the preeminent distributor of fantasy-relevant information and statistics, through both articles and podcasts.
FOUNDER
Andrew Wiggins
Andrew is a premier high-stakes DFS professional competing under the handle Makisupa. Recognized as one of the elite forces in NFL DFS, he has consistently dominated the highest levels of competition. His résumé is highlighted by 25+ live final appearances and over $2,500,000 in live final cashes, solidifying his status as a perennial contender on the industry’s biggest stages.
FOUNDER
Taylor Caby
Taylor is the former co-founder and CEO of CardRunners. He also has extensive experience as a player and operator in poker, daily fantasy and sports betting. You can read about him on Wikipedia here.
DIRECTOR OF ANALYTICS
Mike Leone
Mike has spent the last decade using computer science and machine learning to analyze fantasy sports. He brings a quantitative-focused angle to the team and our content. Mike plays high-volume DFS and premium season-long fantasy leagues, and has had substantial success across a variety of sports and formats.
DIRECTOR OF NICHE SPORTS
Cody Main
Cody has been covering niche football since 2019, focusing on NFL preseason, XFL, USFL and now the UFL. During the NFL season, his focus shifts to single-game formats where he utilizes years of data-driven research to analyze primetime contests. Cody can also be found fine tuning our industry-leading PGA ownership projections year round.
NFL & NBA ANALYST
Mark Dankenbring
Mark “Dank” is the NFL and NBA Projections Lead for Establish The Run. He’s a focal point in sourcing player prop bets thanks to his hands-on work with the player projections, and also appears on weekly NFL and NBA shows. Mark has been producing DFS and season-long fantasy content since 2015.
NFL & BETTING ANALYST
Jack Miller
Jack is focused on NFL projections, both season-long and DFS. He is also covers sports betting, helping readers understand the inner workings of markets.
NFL & BEST BALL
Justin Herzig
Justin is one of the top best ball players in the industry, having been featured by Rolling Stone as the best fantasy football player in the world. His résumé includes five BBM finals and being the only person to have a six-figure score on three different best ball platforms. He lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., with his wife and daughter and is aspiring to compete on the PGA Champions Tour.
DATA SCIENTIST
Sam Walczak
Sam joined ETR in 2023 and focuses on data and modeling efforts across the platform. Alongside Leone, he leads ETR’s growing analytics team with a relentless focus on building the most accurate projections in the industry. A die‑hard Minnesota sports fan and math enthusiast, Sam has had a lifelong passion for sports analytics—from playing fantasy football and DFS, to building a predictive March Madness model in college. His team won the NFL’s Big Data Bowl in 2021 and earned finalist recognition again in 2022. Outside of work, you can usually find Sam in full dad mode spending time with his wife and two boys.
CONTRIBUTOR
Pat Thorman
Pat is a former featured writer at Pro Football Focus and a three-time Fantasy Sports Writers Association award winner. His focus is on how pace and snaps impact statistical output. Pat has placed top 10 in the FantasyPros weekly rankings accuracy contest seven of the past eight seasons, and is the most accurate ranker over the last five years. He lives north of Boston with his wife and son. Pat camps, skis, and catches live music as often as possible.
CONTRIBUTOR
Brandon Thorn
Brandon specializes in offensive and defensive line play, focusing on how trench matchups impact game outcomes. His weekly “OL/DL Mismatches” column highlights situations the market often undervalues, while his team-by-team line rankings provide a clear view of performance across the league. Brandon’s work is rooted in detailed film study and trait-based evaluation, which helps identify where trench advantages are most likely to translate. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children and spends most of his time outside of work with family, camping, reading, and working out.
VIDEO EDITOR
Ryan Fernandez
Ryan is the producer, editor, and manager of the video content featured on the ETR YouTube channels. He helps conceptualize the shows on the pod feed, creates all of the visuals featured in the shows, and shoulders all of the tech-lord issues so you don’t have to. Ryan loves playing NFL & SOC DFS and consuming as many films as possible to flush out the fantasy football videos he takes in daily.
DATA SCIENTIST
Conner Evans
Conner is one of our lead data scientists, specializing in building innovative statistical solutions. He developed the pipelines for the NFL and NBA that originate our “algo” projections for every stat for every player for every game. Conner also created “the sims,” which translates our final projections into correlated distributions for every stat and player in each NFL game. Outside of work, Conner enjoys friendly competition in both sports and board games. He also appreciates regularly spending time with his family and church in Los Angeles.
DATA SCIENTIST
Sam Brott
Sam contributes across a range of data and content workstreams. He is a member of the ETR Data Sci team and also collaborates on the sims products at The Solver. On the content side, Sam provides weekly DFS analysis for NFL and PGA across both written and podcast formats. Sam particularly specializes in projecting small-field ownership for DFS contests and has a decade of success playing DFS, best ball, and other niche fantasy formats. He lives in Virginia with his family and is grateful to have turned a longtime hobby into a role with ETR.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Scott Hind
Scott works on the engineering and data side at ETR, helping build the systems and tools that power the product. He has eight years of experience in machine learning and AI and thrives at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, and sports. Outside of work, Scott is an avid football, basketball, and baseball fan who loves hiking, trail running, scrambling, and spending as much time in the mountains as possible with his wife, baby girl, and dog.
NBA
Saum Jafarinia
Saum helps lead our daily NBA player projections and props sourcing, with most of his expertise in data-driven analysis. He will occasionally appear on podcasts and premium shows. In his spare time, he likes to play basketball, hike, and travel.
OPERATIONS
Destiny Miller
Destiny specializes in customer support, handling emails, fixing issues, and helping out subscribers however she can. In her free time, she’s usually traveling, at a concert, hanging out with her dogs, or coaching youth sports.
OPERATIONS
Jackson Kane
Jackson is an Operations Assistant at ETR. His primary responsibilities are proofreading and formatting the majority of the written content on the site, scheduling shows, assisting with customer support emails, and answering subscriber inquiries in Discord. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son, playing sports, reading, and exercising.
CFB & CBB
Alex Hardin
Alex co-leads the College Football product and heads the College Basketball product at ETR. He focuses on developing and improving projection models to accurately forecast player performance, while also collaborating with the team to provide slate-specific context and analysis. Outside of college sports, Alex enjoys traveling with his family, running, and gardening (particularly berries, vegetables, and herbs).
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