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
- 8,541
- Graded
- 3,881
- Pundits
- 343
- 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 / 8,541
takes graded
4,660 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
- Los Angeles Rams300 takes
- Philadelphia Eagles296 takes
- Buffalo Bills294 takes
- Baltimore Ravens277 takes
- New England Patriots274 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
151–175 of 3,881
Now I'm big, Iwanye Ione... Megge Yonkay? Look, they need a guard, they need offensive line help.
I'm gonna give him a Key Messador, the ed thrusher
I like Monroe feeling here for the Lions
Ruben Bain, I know they signed a couple of edge rushers in free agency, but when you bring in Bain
CJ. Allen, I'm a big fan of I like the fact that he had tax downhill... Georgia linebackers are pretty much, you know, rubber stamps
Dylan Theeneman. They are going to take the safety from Oregon.
Spencer Fano's still here... take the tackle to replace the tackle a year before you need him... that's what I would take him to replace Lane Johnson in the long term.
Get another cornerback man Brandon Ceci from South Carolina... I like him going here to Los Angeles
then he does fit as a guy who could be taken in the top fifteen of this draft and makes Sense
Maybe he's probably gonna go in the fourth or fifth round.
Well, you're probably going to have to do it the top of the second round.
Kyle Lewis, who's going to be a second or third round pick as a linebacker or safety
and, yeah that to me is more of a third fourth round type of. Player right, now
he'll probably be on the field more than other potential sixth round pick types
They have their choice between Monroe Freeling or Max Ayanatra, who I think is going to go in the first round.
he obviously plays a premium position that the style of play ultimately would have him getting drafted in the top ten, twelve, maybe at the max
they just designed their offensive game plan around David Bailey, who might be the second pick in the draft
I would be pretty stunned if he was not the first one of these corners taken.
it's it's hard to imagine him getting out of the top six
I think fifteen is where it starts... they would struggle to sleep that night if they didn't come away from the first round with Malachi Lawrence.
I think the expectation is he will go behind the Ohio State linebackers and behind David Bailey
No Casey concepts you on. That's where I disagree the most. I think he could go as high as top fifteen... So I don't think he's getting past a lot of receiver needy teams in the late twenties.
come back with the Chiefs on the clock at number nine... So they get the best corner in the draft in Mansor Delaine
the forty nine ers you have. Taking Keldrick Falk kind of a divisive prospect
Caden Proctor from Alabama to the Bears... I think at twenty five that's really good value on Proctor