Crew TNF: MWM Semis!

It’s MWM Semis week!! Seven franchises are starting ten players on TNF tonight across five matchups.

🍆 ZJ is here on its first MWM win ever, beating 🧪 CLI in the MWM Quarterfinal by 16.8. Dameon Pierce scored 11.6 on Monday to finish its comeback against 👨‍🍳 M&R, 120.5 to 116.6, and 🍆 ZJ brings a four-game winning streak into the MWM Semifinal.

🎣 DTTW is the top MWM seed as last season’s Champion, and it arrives 2–5. Two top MWM seeds have come into the MWM Semifinal with a losing record, 🕳️ TBH in 2022 and 🍆 ZJ in 2024, and both lost. The second was 🍆 ZJ itself, at 1–6.

🎣 DTTW is 2–0 in MWM games, both on its way to the 2020 MWM, 133.3 to 123.8. 🍆 ZJ is 1–2. The series is level at 14–14, and 🍆 ZJ leads 3–2 in the postseason.

🎣 DTTW starts the Packers D/ST, the only starter tonight in either MWM Semifinal. It last started the Packers defense in 2011, when it did so fifteen times.

This is a rematch of the 2024 MWM Semifinal, which 🦞 Doug won by 38.1 as the MWM 3 seed. It lost that MWM Final to ⚜️ K&G, 131.6 to 126.4, and the 2025 MWM Final to 🧪 CLI, 154.6 to 124.5. 🦞 Doug has three Championships and has never won an MWM.

⏪ RTRO won the 2022 MWM, 148.7 to 108.4, and is 2–1 in MWM games. The MWM 2 seed has won three of the six MWM Semifinals against the 3 seed. 🦞 Doug comes in 5–2 on a four-game winning streak, ⏪ RTRO at 3–4. Neither starts anyone tonight.

🧪 CLI vs 💨 LTF

🧪 CLI leads 7–5, and 💨 LTF has not beaten it since 2023. 💨 LTF is on a three-game losing streak. 🧪 CLI has lost two straight, and it went out of the MWM last week.

Tonight, Christian Watson starts at receiver for 🧪 CLI: 16.9 a game for it, and 33.5 in week 1. Tetairoa McMillan starts at receiver for 💨 LTF tonight. ⏪ RTRO went 10–2 in his starts last season. 💨 LTF is 2–4, even with his 44.4 in week 4.

🕳️ TBH vs 🦅 Pwns

🕳️ TBH trails 3–5. The latest was the widest, last season’s consolation meeting, 113.5 to 158.3. 🕳️ TBH has won three straight. 🦅 Pwns is 5–2, tied for the league lead.

Tonight, Josh Jacobs starts at running back for 🕳️ TBH. He has been taken in each of the last eight Crew drafts, and 🕳️ TBH’s 65th pick this year is the latest he has ever gone. 🦅 Pwns starts Matthew Golden at receiver, Jalen Coker at flex, and a kicker.

🎣 DTTW vs 🦞 Doug

A rematch of last season’s Championship, 114.2 to 103.4. These two have met seven times in the postseason, second only to 🍆 ZJ and 👨‍🍳 M&R, and 🦞 Doug leads those 4–3. If both win their MWM Semifinals, they meet again next week in the MWM Final, where they have never met. 🦞 Doug starts nobody tonight.

⚽ TPC vs 👨‍🍳 M&R

⚽ TPC trails 11–13, and it lost the latest by 2.4, 151.2 to 153.6.

Bryce Young starts at quarterback for ⚽ TPC tonight. He has never been taken in a Crew draft, and ⚽ TPC is 2–0 in his starts at 26.1 a game. Chuba Hubbard starts at running back. ⚽ TPC has drafted him three times. 👨‍🍳 M&R starts nobody.

🍆 ZJ vs ⚜️ K&G

The series is level at 12–11. 🍆 ZJ starts nobody tonight. Tucker Kraft starts at tight end for ⚜️ K&G. 🦞 Doug went 9–2 in his starts. ⚜️ K&G is 2–5, at 9.3 a game against 14.2 for everyone else.

⚜️ K&G’s schedule has been close to impossible. In seven weeks it has faced the week’s highest score three times and a top-three score five times, and both tie the most in Crew history through seven weeks. In week 5 it scored the fourth-best score of the week and lost to the best, 147.5 to 168.3. It is allowing 139.0 a game, the most in the league. Played against every franchise every week, it would be 37–40. The only other franchise to tie both marks was 💨 LTF last season, and it took the Sacko.