Carter Bahns#18 of 87 NFL pundits · Aug 17, 2026
Bahns argues Von Miller, signed to a one-year deal in Dallas, will serve as a rotational edge rusher behind starters Rashan Gary and Donovan Ezeiruaku, with production similar to Jadeveon Clowney's 2025 season (8.5 sacks) a reasonable expectation, helping lift the Cowboys' worst-in-the-league defense.
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What Carter Bahns said
our reading, beside the words we read it fromSomething akin to that is a reasonable expectation for Miller.
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- Von Miller eyes storybook ending to Hall of Fame career by helping hometown Cowboys replace Micah Parsons
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- 1Rashan Gary to be 1st on the depth chart“Rashan Gary is an every-week starter”
- 2Von Miller to record 8.5 sacks“take Jadeveon Clowney, who played the 2025 season on a similar one-year deal and started six of his 13 total games. He turned in one of his better years in some time with 8.5 sacks and 12 tackles for loss. Something akin to that is a reasonable expectation for Miller.”
- 3Von Miller to be 2nd on the depth chart“Miller can be deployed off the bench or make the occasional spot start and play somewhere in the realm of 40% to 50% of the Cowboys' defensive snaps.”
- 4Donovan Ezeiruaku to be 1st on the depth chart“second-year player Donovan Ezeiruaku could settle in as a full-time starter, too”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashan Gary to be 1st on the depth chart1 | Depth Chart Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Von Miller to record 8.5 sacks2 | Player Season Numbers | — | — | — | — | |
| Von Miller to be 2nd on the depth chart3 | Depth Chart Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| Donovan Ezeiruaku to be 1st on the depth chart4 | Depth Chart Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| 4 calls · 4 waiting | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
4 checkable claims — 3 depth chart calls and 1 player season number — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
It names 4 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of them have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
Of the 3 unsettled calls enough other pundits have weighed in on, this one lands above the room on 1 and below it on 2.
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.
1Depth Chart CallsRashan GaryDallas Cowboys
Rashan Gary to be 1st on the depth chart
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
2Player Season NumbersVon MillerDallas Cowboys
Von Miller to record 8.5 sacks
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
3Depth Chart CallsVon MillerDallas Cowboys
Von Miller to be 2nd on the depth chart
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
4Depth Chart CallsDonovan EzeiruakuDallas Cowboys
Donovan Ezeiruaku to be 1st on the depth chart
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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