Crew Chief Drew Blickensderfer's Mediocrity at Texas Will Likely Hold Noah Gragson Back
Source: Racing Reference

Read More News
May 4, 2025
Noah Gragson's top five at Talladega last week may have seemed surprising on the surface but it probably shouldn't have been since he finished third in the previous year's spring Talladega race and his crew chief Drew Blickensderfer had given three different drivers (Matt Kenseth, David Ragan, and Michael McDowell) Daytona wins. However, Texas is another matter and Blickensderfer has done next to nothing with any driver after leaving Roush Fenway Racing in 2011. Since that point, Blickensderfer has only earned one top ten and two laps led with Bubba Wallace in 2018 and he's finished 18th in his last two Texas races with Almirola and Gragson, exactly where Gragson qualified this time. Although Gragson won here in the Xfinity Series, his two previous runs have been very middling and you can expect more of the same. He won't gain enough positions or get a good enough finish to be a viable DFS option.--Sean Wrona - RotoBaller
Read More News
Our goal is to put out the highest-quality content and tools. Ads help us pay RotobBaller's award-winning writers as much as possible they are vital to the site's operations and team.
We would appreciate your support by either turning off your adblocker or signing up for our ad-free subscription tier.
Thanks for being a reader!