NFL
Football pundits, and how their calls actually turned out. See the leaderboard for who is ahead, or dig into any single take below.
- Takes logged
- 8,562
- Graded
- 3,881
- Pundits
- 344
- Average accuracy
- 52.5
out of 100
- By player →
What pundits expect of one person, and how it turned out.
- By team →
Everything predicted about one club, including who they were mocked to take.
Seasons in review
How NFL calls land
Every graded call, bucketed by score out of 100.
Takes in each band
Settled or waiting
3,881 / 8,562
takes graded
4,681 awaiting a result
The middle ground
The same graded calls, zoomed to the bands between the spikes — every take that earned partial credit.
Takes in each band
1,344 graded takes land strictly between the extremes, and the shape has a story: the counts climb as the scores improve. A take that earns partial credit is far more likely to be nearly right than nearly wrong.
This is where the curve-graded kinds live — mock draft picks (914), season win totals (151) and positional finishes (130) — the kinds where missing by a little costs a little, not everything.
Most-discussed players
All players →The people pundits predict most.
- Fernando MendozaQB69 takes
- Cam WardQB57 takes
- Tetairoa McMillanWR52 takes
- Shedeur SandersQB51 takes
- Ashton JeantyRB51 takes
- Travis HunterCB47 takes
- Jeremiyah LoveRB44 takes
- Ty SimpsonQB43 takes
Most-discussed teams
All teams →The clubs pundits predict most.
- Kansas City Chiefs348 takes
- Philadelphia Eagles304 takes
- Los Angeles Rams300 takes
- Buffalo Bills294 takes
- New England Patriots283 takes
- Baltimore Ravens277 takes
- Las Vegas Raiders254 takes
- Seattle Seahawks241 takes
Least-discussed teams
All teams →The clubs punditry forgets. Fans notice.
- Atlanta Falcons143 takes
- New Orleans Saints150 takes
- Arizona Cardinals154 takes
- Carolina Panthers155 takes
- Cincinnati Bengals169 takes
- Indianapolis Colts169 takes
- New York Jets170 takes
- Minnesota Vikings180 takes
By kind of prediction
How each is graded →Average accuracy wherever anything has been graded, grouped by what the call is about.
The draft1,575 graded
- Team Draft Slot Calls75.6 · 22 graded
- Position Order Calls74.3 · 67 graded
- Mock Draft Picks54.5 · 1477 graded
- Draft Bust Calls50.0 · 2 graded
- Prospect vs Prospect Calls40.0 · 7 graded
The season race708 graded
- Playoff Picks55.8 · 380 graded
- Season Win Totals51.2 · 230 graded
- Super Bowl Picks28.9 · 98 graded
Single games547 graded
- Score Predictions61.3 · 92 graded
- Game Outcome Picks56.8 · 455 graded
Players and rosters697 graded
- Depth Chart Calls93.0 · 310 graded
- Player Season Numbers35.9 · 145 graded
- Positional Finishes31.3 · 242 graded
Awards and honors321 graded
- Award Picks18.9 · 254 graded
- Coach Award Picks11.3 · 53 graded
- Pro Bowl and All-Pro Calls0.0 · 14 graded
Rankings and lists223 graded
- Power Rankings66.5 · 106 graded
- Top Player Lists54.9 · 96 graded
- Position Group Rankings50.9 · 15 graded
- Head Coach Rankings44.5 · 6 graded
Fantasy football68 graded
- Fantasy Bust Calls66.7 · 3 graded
- Fantasy Rankings65.8 · 53 graded
- Sleeper Calls50.0 · 12 graded
Who is beating the baseline
Full leaderboard →Zero means no better than a naive guess. Shown once a pundit has 3 graded articles; every rating is provisional.
- James Harrison3 articles+106.7
- Simon Hunter5 articles+75.7
- Dave Wannstedt3 articles+65.8
- Joel Klatt3 articles+63.6
- Lance Zierlein6 articles+53.2
- Cody Kessler4 articles+48.9
- Tom Strachan3 articles+41.6
- Dan Pizzuta8 articles+38.0
Every NFL take
3026–3050 of 3,881
Why couldn't they go nine to eight this year?... I could see the Patriots winning eight or nine games.
So I look at the over under on Tennessee and you know it's five and a half. Some have had it at six and a half. I think they clear that bar easily... and so I Titans to me earn over.
I mean the Titans from what I've heard, I was in Nashville month ago, pretty good source. They've been dead set on him for like a month. This guy's going the number one pick
So New England was one of my overs... This is an eight to nine win team. And again the Jets are a bit lost... So I think New England's in play.
I've said Kyle McCord at Syracuse. I take him in the second round and feel pretty good... Then I watched them at Syracuse and I'm like, shit, that's a second round pick.
So I think the Niners probably more likely to win nine or ten games.
Despite receiving the coverage of a Day 3 pick, I expect him to be selected in the top 50.
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the Giants at three, choosing Travis Hunter over a dual carter
my God Bucky Brooks has mister Mason Graham out of Michigan... going to Jacksonville at number five
JJ McCarthy sounds like he's the starter of Week one in Minnesota. Do you agree, Yes, he's a starter... they're going to do so by having him as their quarterback Week One
We've talked about him at three Bucky's got him going to to Cleveland... So Bucky goes quarterback quarterback one two
we'll look at number ten and oh, Marion Hampton is the running back from North Carolina... It seems that everyone is just determined that the Bears are going to draft a running back.
knowing he was going to be the first quarterback taken, I said, but he's not the best player in this draft
I wouldn't say it's inevitable, but I would say it's very likely that cam Ward will be the first overall pick.
It doesn't he's gonna go number one. I'm actually more certain, I think than you guys are that he's gonna go number one... They're gonna take him number one, I think
Nick and Worry from the you know, South Carolina is at twenty four to the Viking team
I noticed Samar Stewart, who blew up the combine, is number thirty two in your mock draft. The Eagles taking another big, strong, fast guy.
Abdull Carter is there now at number two going to the Browns.
So I think Booker get he'll get back in, He'll get back into the latter third. I would say of the first round.
because I don't think he's getting out of the top four or five. Where where those teams would put him?
Accid Empty to the Raiders at six... Genti from twenty one up to six
Donovan Azeraku go into the Bucks at night... now he's all the way up to nineteen
Jalen Walker from of the linebacker going to the Jaguars at five
and then the cornerback as Aarya Thomas from Florida State at twenty nine