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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.
4 of 79 graded articles on this page, newest first — page 8 of 14.
Detroit Lions to make the playoffs
“Commanders, Lions and Rams are the playoff teams”
Washington Commanders to make the playoffs
“Commanders, Lions and Rams are the playoff teams”
“we go to the AFC North. It's going to stay the same. Bengals... Ravens are the best operation... Steelers have not been impressive... Cleveland ... probably finished fourth”
Jordan Love to be 1st on the depth chart
“Do not worry about Jordan Love's non throwing hand. He will start Week one”
“The East remains the same. Eagles, Commanders, Giants, Cowboys.”
New England Patriots to make the playoffs
“Patriots Bengals, Chiefs are playoff teams. Patriots Bengals new playoff teams”
“I'll move the Niners from fourth to third... I think Seattle is gonna win the division... Commanders, Lions and Rams are the playoff teams”
Kansas City Chiefs to make the playoffs
“Patriots Bengals, Chiefs are playoff teams.”
Cincinnati Bengals to make the playoffs
“the easiest pick in the NFL this year for a team that didn't make the playoffs last year and will this year is Cincinnati”
Los Angeles Rams to make the playoffs
“Commanders, Lions and Rams are the playoff teams”
“AFC East Bills are going to win it. Patriots are my most improved team... Dolphins coming out now... The Jets, I just structurally I have no idea their fourth”
Green Bay Packers to win the division
“the more I look at Green Bay. They love their first round pick the more I like the Packers ... So the Eagles, Packers, Bucks, and Seahawks are the division winners.”
Houston Texans to win the division
“So Bill's Ravens, Texans, Broncos now winning their divisions.”
Philadelphia Eagles to win the division
“that's an Eagles division ... So the Eagles, Packers, Bucks, and Seahawks are the division winners.”
Buffalo Bills to win the division
“AFC East Bills are going to win it. ... So Bill's Ravens, Texans, Broncos now winning their divisions.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win the division
“Baker Mayfield playing with more maturity. I'm going to take them to win the division again”
Baltimore Ravens to win the division
“So Bill's Ravens, Texans, Broncos now winning their divisions.”
Denver Broncos to win the division
“AFC West. I am flipping the Broncos and the Chargers. ... So Bill's Ravens, Texans, Broncos now winning their divisions.”
Seattle Seahawks to win the division
“I'm gonna put Seattle. This is my shocker. I think Seattle is gonna win the division.”
“NFC North Major change, Green Bay... The Lions, I'm dropping them to second... So I am taking the Bears from second to third, the Lions from first to second.”
“I am going to move the Jags into the second spot... I'm gonna put them at second, Titans, third, Colts, fourth”
Shedeur Sanders to be 1st on the depth chart
“Shadur is going to start. Mark my word”
Philadelphia Eagles to make the playoffs
“NFC East Eagles, Commanders, Commanders Class of the NFC East ... Giants, Cowboys”
New England Patriots to make the playoffs
“if I had made these two changes, I do only have two new playoff teams New England and ... Seattle in the NFC”
Seattle Seahawks to make the playoffs
“I do only have two new playoff teams New England and the AFC and Seattle in the NFC”
Houston Texans to make the playoffs
“C J. Stroud made the playoffs. My guess is c J. Stroud will make the playoffs again this year.”
Washington Commanders to win the division
“Commanders Class of the NFC East, not Close”
Baltimore Ravens to win the division
“AFC North prediction. Ravens are the class of of this division”
Los Angeles Chargers to win the division
“AFC West Chargers, Chiefs. Broncos, Raiders.”
Buffalo Bills to win the division
“So in the AFC, for instance, Josh Allen's gonna win the division for as long as he's in his prime.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win the division
“NFC South, weakest division in my opinion in football Bucks class of the division, best GM, best quarterback, and you know I'll take the Bucks.”
Houston Texans to win the division
“AFC South is weak. Texans are gonna win the division.”
Los Angeles Rams to win the division
“NFC West again, I'm not as high as the Niners as jmac. I go ram Seahawks.”
Green Bay Packers to make the playoffs
“I'd probably move the Bears out and the Packers in again, noise out like the Bengals, reliable Sean Payton, Green Bay Packers in”
Denver Broncos to make the playoffs
“If I moved Cincinnati out because I've predicted they'll make the playoffs, I would put the Broncos in.”
Chicago Bears to finish with 10 wins
“I think the Bears have an opportunity to win ten or eleven games. I don't think it's as good a division as people think.”
Los Angeles Chargers to win the division
“And I know last week you had the Chargers to they could be to win the division. It's not I mean it's not inconceivable”