Ollie ConnollyMay 22, 2026
Connolly made the odd-numbered picks in the top-32 edge rusher ranking for 2026, taking Myles Garrett first overall, and predicted Reuben Bain will be a top-20 pass rusher as a rookie and that Trey Hendrickson will bounce back statistically in Miami's defense.
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What Ollie Connolly said
our reading, beside the words we read it fromI will take Miles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns, who is I think quite clearly, quite complete, the most dominant one on one ed rush from the league.
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- Around the NFL (podcast)
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- NFL Daily 32: Ranking the Best Edge Rushers
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- 1Rueben Bain to finish top 20 at his position, by an unstated measure“we're gonna look back at the end of the, season go why did we not just think he would be in the top twenty pastors in the league when he walked in as the best pastors from the draft”
- 2Top Player Lists“Connolly's picks across the NFL Daily 32 edge rusher draft: Myles Garrett (1), Micah Parsons (3), Danielle Hunter (5), Nik Bonitto (7), Abdul Carter (9), T.J. Watt (11), Trey Hendrickson (13), Josh Sweat (15), Jaelan Phillips (17), Laiatu Latu (19), Yaya Diaby (21), Tuli Tuipulotu (23), Byron Young (25), DeMarcus Lawrence (27), Jalon Walker (29), Reuben Bain (31)”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rueben Bain to finish top 20 at his position, by an unstated measure1 | Positional Finishes | — | — | — | — | |
| “Connolly's picks across the NFL Daily 32 edge rusher draft:…”2 | Top Player Lists | — | — | — | — | |
| 2 calls · 1 waiting · 1 too vague to check | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
2 claims — 1 positional finish and 1 top player list — the one we can check graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
The one call we can check has not settled yet — it grades once its result is in.
The other one was too vague to check, so it is not graded.
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.
1Positional FinishesRueben Bain
Rueben Bain to finish top 20 at his position, by an unstated measure
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.
“Connolly's picks across the NFL Daily 32 edge rusher draft: Myles Garrett (1), Micah Parsons (3), Danielle Hunter (5), Nik Bonitto (7), Abdul Carter (9), T.J. Watt (11), Trey Hendrickson (13), Josh Sweat (15), Jaelan Phillips (17), Laiatu Latu (19), Yaya Diaby (21), Tuli Tuipulotu (23), Byron Young (25), DeMarcus Lawrence (27), Jalon Walker (29), Reuben Bain (31)”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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