Rich Eisen#38 of 87 NFL pundits · Sep 3, 2026
Eisen picks the Bengals to win the AFC North, has the Browns finishing fourth, sees the Steelers as a 10-win playoff team, and expects the Patriots to win somewhere in the 11-13 range.
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What Rich Eisen said
our reading, beside the words we read it fromSo I'm going to Bengals to win the division.
- Where it was said
- The Rich Eisen Show (podcast)
- The episode
- Hour 3: AFC North Predictions, Actor Mark Wahlberg talks ‘By Any Means’ and plays Celebrity True or False, Actor Mark Wahlberg plays the Patriots Win-Loss Game
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- 1Pittsburgh Steelers to finish with 10 wins“the Steelers could be a 10 win team and make it”
- 2Season Win Totals“I think they're gonna be like, 11 wins, twelve, thirteen.”
- 3Cincinnati Bengals to win the division“And I just love the way that he's been talking... So I'm going to Bengals to win the division.”
- 4Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs“And I'm with you as well that the Steelers could be a 10 win team and make it.”
- 5Power Rankings“The Browns, as much as I'm, like, talking about them as a sleeper team, I just I just can't choose them anything but fourth... So I'm going to Bengals to win the division.”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Steelers to finish with 10 wins1 | Season Win Totals | — | — | — | — | |
| “I think they're gonna be like, 11 wins, twelve, thirteen.”2 | Season Win Totals | — | — | — | — | |
| Cincinnati Bengals to win the division3 | Division Winners | — | — | — | — | |
| Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs4 | Playoff Picks | — | — | — | — | |
| “The Browns, as much as I'm, like, talking about them as a…”5 | Power Rankings | — | — | — | — | |
| 5 calls · 4 waiting · 1 too vague to check | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
5 claims — 2 season win totals, 1 division winner, 1 playoff pick and 1 power ranking — the 4 we can check 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 the 4 calls we can check have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
The other one was too vague to check, so it is not graded.
Of the 1 unsettled call enough other pundits have weighed in on, this one lands above the rest of the room.
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.
Where this call stands in the room
Pittsburgh Steelers · 2026 season · wins18 calls from 12 pundits between 6 wins and 12 wins. Rich Eisen said 10 wins. the room's median is 9 wins. not settled yet
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Their call against the room
winsTheir call against everyone else's, while this is still unsettled.
1Season Win TotalsPittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers to finish with 10 wins
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
2Season Win TotalsNew England Patriots
“I think they're gonna be like, 11 wins, twelve, thirteen.”
VerdictToo vague to checkToo vague to check: we could not tell what would count as right, so it stays on the record without a score.
3Division WinnersCincinnati Bengals
Cincinnati Bengals to win the division
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
4Playoff PicksPittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
“The Browns, as much as I'm, like, talking about them as a sleeper team, I just I just can't choose them anything but fourth... So I'm going to Bengals to win the division.”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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