# Richard Sherman — prediction record Richard Sherman played 11 seasons as an NFL cornerback, earning five Pro Bowl selections and five All-Pro honors, including three first-team nods. A fifth-round pick out of Stanford, he became a central figure in Seattle's "Legion of Boom" defense—the secondary that led the league in pass defense in 2013 and 2014 and helped the Seahawks win Super Bowl XLVIII with a dominant 43–8 victory over Denver. Seattle returned to the Super Bowl the following year, falling to New England, and during Sherman's tenure the team led the league in scoring defense for four consecutive seasons. He later played for San Francisco, reaching Super Bowl LIV, and finished his career in Tampa Bay. Since retiring, Sherman has moved into media work. He co-hosts The Richard Sherman Podcast with former agent Mitchell Eisenstein under The Volume brand, serves as a pregame and postgame analyst for Amazon, and spent a season as Skip Bayless's co-host on Undisputed. His predictions span NFC division races, draft reactions, and player awards, with particular attention to the Seahawks, 49ers, and Rams. ## Record - **Accuracy:** 60.91% - **MissedTakes Score:** 17.85 - **Graded articles:** 15 - **Graded individual calls:** 87 - **Clarity:** 95.84% LIMITED SAMPLE: between 10 and 29 graded articles. Treat with caution. The MissedTakes Score is how much better than a naive baseline they did, not how often they were right. Zero means no better than a strategy requiring no knowledge. A record is counted in ARTICLES rather than individual calls, because thirty picks in one mock draft is one act of judgment rather than thirty. Full method: https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/methodology ## Graded articles (15) ### Sep 17, 2026 — scored 100 across 1 call Sherman ran through the entire Week 2 slate with winners and several exact final scores, picking Seattle, San Francisco, Buffalo, Houston, Chicago, New England, Jacksonville, Dallas, Kansas City, the Rams, Green Bay, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Las Vegas and Carolina. He also called Fred Warner the league's best middle linebacker and floated Parker Washington as a top-five receiver. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/8a2c5da4-3fba-43d7-82eb-dc25b81f245e ### Sep 9, 2026 — scored 56.85 across 8 calls Sherman picked Seattle to beat New England 28-17 in the opener, ran through score picks for the rest of the week one slate (49ers, Cowboys, Bills, Bears, Vikings, Colts, Broncos), said the Seahawks would also beat the Cardinals, Commanders and Chargers, backed Dallas to win its division, and predicted Christian Gonzalez's deal would come in barely above Devon Witherspoon's. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/3b4f1960-4810-4136-8023-c9a76a0598a3 ### Sep 5, 2026 — scored 100 across 1 call The co-host (addressed only as "Mitchell") predicted the Bengals would shock people, win the AFC North and land a top-three seed, and that the Chargers would grab a wild card; he also gave the Raiders their lone early win against Miami. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/1105b396-46d7-45e5-8e6b-90261fd2a8ef ### Sep 5, 2026 — scored 80 across 5 calls Sherman previewed the AFC, picking the Bills, Chiefs, Ravens and Texans as division winners with Denver, New England and Jacksonville as wild cards, called several individual early-season games, and predicted a big year for Travis Hunter at cornerback. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/72ff16c2-b2aa-4bf7-aad7-0cdabfa8a999 ### Sep 1, 2026 — scored 50 across 2 calls Sherman picked the Seahawks to repeat as NFC West champs, Dallas to win the East, Detroit the North and Tampa Bay the South, with the Rams, 49ers and Bears as wild cards. He also gave records for each team's first four games and picked the Rams over the 49ers in Week 1. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/899da7d4-df5a-4224-84ca-ef4e215dc978 ### Feb 3, 2026 — scored 79.05 across 5 calls Sherman picks the Seahawks to beat the Patriots 24-10 in the Super Bowl, with Sam Darnold winning game MVP, and he also expects Matthew Stafford to be named league MVP and Jaxon Smith-Njigba to win Offensive Player of the Year. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/5ab6f4c1-fbc9-4302-be00-058afd3d2b04 ### Jan 23, 2026 — scored 96.43 across 6 calls Sherman picks the Seahawks to beat the Rams comfortably at home, 27-17, with a defensive score, and says the winner of that NFC Championship game will win the Super Bowl. He also picks the Patriots to win comfortably in Denver, 21-15, and assumes Matthew Stafford will be named league MVP. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/4711f09c-65e6-4c33-8374-9601a907fa43 ### Jan 16, 2026 — scored 63.49 across 3 calls Sherman refused to pick the 49ers-Seahawks divisional game, calling it a pick'em that comes down to the last possession, but he picked Chicago over the Rams, Denver over Buffalo, and Houston 17-9 over New England, while reaffirming his preseason call of the Broncos reaching the Super Bowl. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/06c20ff5-0935-4595-b749-983f422ee7e0 ### Nov 12, 2025 — scored 53.33 across 3 calls Sherman gives his week 11 power rankings, keeping Seattle at No. 1, elevating Philadelphia to No. 2 and the Rams to No. 3, with New England fourth and Indianapolis fifth. He also picks Green Bay to beat the Giants and argues Jonathan Taylor should be MVP. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/a1e1274f-39cd-494d-acd3-3bdb46fc79f4 ### Oct 24, 2025 — scored 0 across 2 calls The host argues no running back will win MVP under current voting, and that Jonathan Taylor will instead take Offensive Player of the Year as the consolation prize. He also says he's confident the Kansas City Chiefs will end up in the playoff picture. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/73f21321-bfb4-4fa3-80a6-6fe73a0c2eba ### Oct 24, 2025 — scored 0 across 1 call The guest says Sam Darnold is playing at a first-team All-Pro level while leading an elite team. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/c7d73c27-2a94-4ee1-9046-42fde863faf0 ### Oct 14, 2025 — scored 0 across 1 call Sherman lays out a partial top-five power ranking with Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis and Seattle, putting the Steelers third and the Colts second, while saying Philadelphia and Buffalo may fall out of his top five. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/7cbca39a-e9ec-4e91-a080-999c5fd04c68 ### Sep 4, 2025 — scored 38.04 across 23 calls Sherman previewed every division: he picked Seattle to win the NFC West on a tiebreaker over San Francisco (both 11-11 wins), the Lions over the Packers in the North, the Eagles to run away with the East, Tampa Bay in the South, and Kansas City, Buffalo and the Ravens' division rivals in the AFC. He picked an Eagles–Chiefs Super Bowl with Philadelphia repeating, Joe Burrow for MVP, and gave a top-five power ranking. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/ec43b02b-8e3a-4b2e-8c36-1839c9c52e3c ### Feb 8, 2025 — scored 50 across 1 call Sherman picks the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, saying he won't bet against the back-to-back champs even though he considers the Eagles the more talented roster. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/7f015524-e405-4674-aecf-a478282c186e ### Jan 25, 2025 — scored 59.09 across 11 calls Sherman picks the Chiefs to beat the Bills in the AFC Championship Game despite Buffalo's turnover dominance, and picks the Commanders to upset the Eagles in Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game. He also expects Saquon Barkley to win Offensive Player of the Year, though he hedges that voters may give it to Lamar or Josh Allen. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/fd0cf59d-3729-4865-8641-02792d0b6b24 ### Jan 15, 2025 — scored 66.71 across 6 calls Sherman picks the Eagles to beat the Rams in the divisional round, the Ravens to beat the Bills in Buffalo, and the Chiefs to beat the Texans at home. He also expects Sam Darnold to stay in Minnesota for at least one more year, says Shedeur Sanders should be gone within the top five picks, and predicts Dak Prescott remains Dallas's starting quarterback. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/956f5970-10c1-4e23-a612-56ce9ca02030 ### Jan 9, 2025 — scored 84.38 across 8 calls Sherman picked the Eagles, Vikings, Ravens and Bills in their wild-card games, named Lamar Jackson MVP, Patrick Surtain DPOY, Kevin O'Connell Coach of the Year, put Jared Verse in the top three of Defensive Rookie of the Year voting, and gave a Week 18 power ranking with Kansas City first. https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/opinions/2d7cf80e-1b0e-4129-92f3-225d97061cbe --- We grade claims about outcomes, never claims about people. If something here is wrong, tell us: https://missedtakes.thegoodapps.co/corrections?pundit=richard-sherman