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Colin Cowherd is an American sports media personality who began his broadcasting career as a sports director at Las Vegas television station KVBC before moving through several other stations and joining ESPN in 2003. At ESPN, he hosted a radio show on the ESPN Radio network and became one of the original hosts of SportsNation, as well as Colin's New Football Show. He currently hosts The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports 1. Cowherd covers the NFL with particular attention to franchises like the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, and Philadelphia Eagles. His predictions range from individual game outcomes to playoff berths, draft positioning, and season win totals — the full spectrum of NFL forecasting.
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Every take from Colin Cowherd, including the ones still waiting →
Is Colin Cowherd accurate? Across 445 graded calls in 72 articles, Colin Cowherd scores 55.35% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 9.13, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims. That is an established record: thirty or more graded articles.
96.36% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.
Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.
5 of 79 graded articles on this page, newest first — page 13 of 14.
Detroit Lions to win the division
“So my division winners Eagles, Lions, Falcons, Rams”
Houston Texans to make the playoffs
“C J. Stroud's probably gonna make the playoffs.”
Los Angeles Rams to make the playoffs
“NFC West, so I have the Rams winning it.”
Philadelphia Eagles to make the playoffs
“So my division winners Eagles, Lions, Falcons, Rams”
Atlanta Falcons to win the division
“So my division winners Eagles, Lions, Falcons, Rams”
Washington Commanders to make the playoffs
“wild Card Commanders, Bears, Seahawks both squeak in”
Baltimore Ravens to make the playoffs
“Lamar Jackson's gonna make the playoffs.”
“I'll pick them over the Commanders... Dallas third... I'll pick the Giants for fourth”
“The Lions have the best roster, I'll pick them one. The Vikings have the worst roster, I'll pick them four... I have Chicago second”
Michael Penix Jr. to finish top 1 at his position, by an unstated measure
“I think Fennix has a chance to be the best quarterback in that division.”
Buffalo Bills to make the playoffs
“Josh Allen's gonna make the playoffs.”
Seattle Seahawks to finish with 10 wins
“that Seahawks schedule is screaming ten to eleven wins”
“NFC West, so I have the Rams winning it... Seahawks, Niners, like Bears, Packers... Arizona. No massive upgrades are what they are.”
Kansas City Chiefs to make the playoffs
“Mahomes is gonna make the playoffs.”
Chicago Bears to make the playoffs
“wild Card Commanders, Bears, Seahawks both squeak in”
Seattle Seahawks to make the playoffs
“wild Card Commanders, Bears, Seahawks both squeak in”
Atlanta Falcons to make the playoffs
“So I have three new playoff teams, the Falcons, the Bears, and the Seahawks.”
Los Angeles Rams to win the division
“NFC West, so I have the Rams winning it.”
Detroit Lions to make the playoffs
“So my division winners Eagles, Lions, Falcons, Rams”
Philadelphia Eagles to win the division
“So my division winners Eagles, Lions, Falcons, Rams”
Kirk Cousins to move
“cousins will get purchased by somebody before the trade deadline”
Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
“I like Kansas City in this game. But you know I say this without a ton of conviction... I think you're going to get a classic super Bowl, super Bowl fifty nine.”
A.J. Brown to finish top 4 at his position, by passing yards
“AJ Brown is a top three to four receiver in the league.”
Kansas City Chiefs 30 — Philadelphia 27
“I like Kansas City thirty, Philadelphia twenty seven, Super Bowl fifty nine”
DeVonta Smith to be 2nd on the depth chart
“Davante may be the most talented number two receiver he and t Higgins in the NFL.”
Patrick Mahomes to finish top 1 at his position, by passing yards
“which quarterback you love the most passing yards in the second half... I'm gonna take Patrick Mahomes.”
“We'll do the defensive front seven Chiefs or Eagles... I like Kansas City?”
“tight end Colin. Who you got the Chiefs with featuring Kelsey and Gray or the Eagles feature Goddart... I'll go Travis Kelsey”
“running backs. Colin Chiefs are Eagles, the Chiefs by Committee or the near MVP SA quad mark easy one. Philadelphia”
Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
“So here is my pick for the Philadelphia Kansas City Super Bowl. Chiefs are minus one and a half. I like Kansas City and here's why.”
“wide receiver. Which group has the advantage The Chiefs with d hop Worthy in Hollywood Brown or the Eagles with AJ Brown DeVonta Smith... Philadelphia”
“Offensive line Chiefs are Eagles... You got I think Philadelphia.”
Sam Darnold to move to Las Vegas Raiders
“I think the Raiders are in play, usc Pete Carroll. If the money is right, I think the Raiders are in play.”
Riley Leonard to be picked “second to third round” (picks 33–102)
“I do believe that a Riley Leonard Kyle McCord in the second to third round could actually end up falling to good teams and actually being decent franchise quarterbacks.”
Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
“We know this is going to be a coach, a Spags Fangio Reid Mahomes Hurts Nick Siriani game. And that's why I favor Kansas City.”
Kyle McCord to be picked “second to third round” (picks 33–102)
“I do believe that a Riley Leonard Kyle McCord in the second to third round could actually end up falling to good teams and actually being decent franchise quarterbacks.”
Kansas City Chiefs to beat Philadelphia
“we got one football game left, Kansas City favored by a point and a half over Philadelphia, and I like Kansas City high scoring... I will take the best quarterback probably ever, and the best coach in my opinion, probably ever in a big game with two weeks to prepare.”
Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
“Kansas City is favored by one and a half points. That would have been close to my guests, like, I like Kansas City. I like Kansas City in the Super Bowl. I think they match up really well with Philadelphia.”