Bucky Brooks#26 of 87 NFL pundits · Feb 28, 2026
After day two of on-field combine work, Brooks said safety Dylan Denneman's testing cemented them as a first-day draft pick, cornerback D'Angelo Ponds will come off the board inside the top 60, and tight end Kenyon Sadik locked themselves into the first round.
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our reading, beside the words we read it fromI think he comes off the board before we get to the top sixty.
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- 2026 NFL Combine Recap: Safety, CB, & TEs
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- SaidFeb 28
- GradedAug 5
- 1Kenyon Sadiq to be picked “the first round” (picks 1–32)“But Red, I think he locked himself in to the first round.”
- 2D'Angelo Ponds to be picked “comes off the board before we get to the top sixty”“he's gonna be in the conversation when we talk about Day two second round corners. I think he comes off the board before we get to the top sixty.”
- 3Top Player Lists“He was number five on my top five list at tight ends. ... Your number two tight end, right, Dallen Bentley from Utah”
- 4Dillon Thieneman to be picked “day one coming off the board”“this performance solidifies himself as one of those guys that we're gonna talk about on day one coming off the board.”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenyon Sadiq to be picked “the first round” (picks 1–32)1 | Mock Draft Picks | Went 16 | 100 | 50 | — | |
| D'Angelo Ponds to be picked “comes off the board before we get to the top sixty”2 | Mock Draft Picks | — | — | — | — | |
| “He was number five on my top five list at tight ends. ... Your…”3 | Top Player Lists | — | — | — | — | |
| Dillon Thieneman to be picked “day one coming off the board”4 | Mock Draft Picks | — | — | — | — | |
| 4 calls · 1 hit · 3 waiting | 100 | 50 | ||||
How each call scored
a naive guessbetter than naive4 checkable claims — 3 mock draft picks and 1 top player list — 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.
1 of 4 have settled so far, averaging 100 out of 100, against 50 for a naive guess at the same calls.
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.
Their call against what happened
overall pickTheir call against what actually happened.
Kenyon Sadiq to be picked “the first round” (picks 1–32)
What happenedWent 16100Hit · naive 50Think this is wrong?How this was scored
- draft:
- 2026
- naive:
- a shuffled mock scores 50
- player:
- Kenyon Sadiq
- season:
- 2025
- zero credit this far off:
- 32
- accuracy:
- 100
- baseline:
- 50
- actual pick:
- 16
- difficulty:
- 1
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- pick accuracy:
- 100
- predicted pick:
- the first round (picks 1–32)
- weeks left when called:
- 0
- mock ordering score:
- only one pick — no order to score
2Mock Draft PicksD'Angelo Ponds
D'Angelo Ponds to be picked “comes off the board before we get to the top sixty”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
“He was number five on my top five list at tight ends. ... Your number two tight end, right, Dallen Bentley from Utah”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
4Mock Draft PicksDillon Thieneman
Dillon Thieneman to be picked “day one coming off the board”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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