Rich Eisen#38 of 87 NFL pundits · Oct 21, 2026
Eisen delivered their Week 7 NFL power rankings, keeping the 49ers at No. 1 and controversially placing the 2-4 Texans at No. 10. They also leaned slightly toward Pittsburgh in the upcoming Sunday night meeting with Houston and dismissed the idea that the Eagles would trade Saquon Barkley.
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our reading, beside the words we read it fromBut still, I gotta keep the the niners number one as my power ranking.
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- Hour 2: NFL Week 7 Power Rankings, Yankees’ Blame Game, plus ‘The Greatest’ Star Jaalen Best
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- 1Power Rankings“My power rankings for week seven at number 10 is a two and fourteen... it's the Houston Texans... Number nine on the list... I'm not kicking the Ravens off my top 10... London stunk for the Jaguars... Number seven, back on the list of the Green Bay Packers... Number six back on the list of the bears... Number five, top five, up three spots are your New England Patriots... the Bills, at three would beat the Vikings at four... Number two is the Chiefs, and still number one of the forty niners.”
- 2Saquon Barkley to stay with Philadelphia Eagles“They're gonna trade for Saquon, and it's fine... I can't imagine the Eagles are just gonna cut bait on a season where they're two and four... I don't buy that.”
- 3Pittsburgh Steelers to beat Texans“because they do play one another, and it's gonna be a Sunday night game... It's in Pittsburgh... I'd probably... Yeah. Slight slight Pittsburgh clean [lean] there.”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| “My power rankings for week seven at number 10 is a two and…”1 | Power Rankings | — | — | — | — | |
| Saquon Barkley to stay with Philadelphia Eagles2 | Trade and Signing Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Pittsburgh Steelers to beat Texans3 | Game Outcome Picks | — | — | — | — | |
| 3 calls · 3 waiting | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
3 checkable claims — 1 game outcome pick, 1 power ranking and 1 trade and signing call — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
It names 3 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of them have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
Each call is scored 0 to 100 against what happened, on its own, by the published methodology. The naive guess is what knowing nothing would have scored on the same calls; the gap, weighted by how hard the call was, is the skill.
“My power rankings for week seven at number 10 is a two and fourteen... it's the Houston Texans... Number nine on the list... I'm not kicking the Ravens off my top 10... London stunk for the Jaguars... Number seven, back on the list of the Green Bay Packers... Number six back on the list of the bears... Number five, top five, up three spots are your New England Patriots... the Bills, at three would beat the Vikings at four... Number two is the Chiefs, and still number one of the forty niners.”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
2Trade and Signing CallsSaquon BarkleyPhiladelphia Eagles
Saquon Barkley to stay with Philadelphia Eagles
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
3Game Outcome PicksPittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers to beat Texans
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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