Rich Eisen Goes 6-for-6, Kevin Wildes Tops the MissedTakes Score | MissedTakes Weekly

Rich Eisen won Pundit of the Week for accuracy in 2026-W43, going 6 for 6 on graded calls for a perfect-on-the-week accuracy of 100. Kevin Wildes took the MissedTakes Score award for the same week, averaging 183.5 across his two graded calls, a figure well above zero, which is what the score measures a pundit against picking the home team. We graded 411 calls across all pundits in the week, 223 of them hits, 46 close and 142 misses.

Who went 6-for-6 this week?

Rich Eisen did, with every one of his six graded calls in the week scoring 100 accuracy. Across his full record, Eisen sits at 61.68 accuracy on 478 graded calls, so a clean week like this stands out against his season-long rate.

What did Rich Eisen get right this week?

Eisen's biggest calls dated back to an August 17 appearance, where he said of the Raiders' October slate: "October schedule is home for Kansas City at New England, home for Buffalo, home for the Rams." He added he didn't see Las Vegas winning any of them. Both results referenced in that call were graded in the week: Buffalo beat Las Vegas 33-30 and the Rams beat Las Vegas 35-21, each worth the maximum MissedTakes Score credit of 200.

He also called Pittsburgh over New Orleans in the teams' Paris game, saying "this is a big game for the Steelers in Paris. This is winnable. They should they should beat the Saints," and the Steelers won 16-10. On the same show he backed Minnesota over Indianapolis, "The Vikings are at home... against the Colts team that just fired their general manager," and the Vikings won 16-10. A September 28 call that the Patriots "don't see a win there until week eight" against Chicago also graded correct once the Bears won that Thursday night game.

Who led the MissedTakes Score this week?

Kevin Wildes did, averaging 183.5 across two graded calls, both of them correct picks against the favored side. On October 23 he wrote, "I am taking the Bengals over the Ravens. It's not a huge line... But I know the Bengals are rested and ready to go," and Cincinnati won 35-13, a call worth 167 with Baltimore as the default home pick. His other graded call in the week, made back on September 4 as part of a full-season game-by-game projection, had Buffalo beating Las Vegas; that call was worth the maximum 200 once the Bills won 33-30, the same Raiders result Eisen also had right. Across his full record, Wildes has 27 graded calls at 48.47 accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 33.8.

How many calls did pundits get graded this week?

Pundits had 411 calls graded in the seven days spanning October 19 to October 25: 223 hits, 46 close calls and 142 misses. Game Outcome Picks were the heaviest category, with 231 graded, followed by Score Predictions at 141. Roster Spot Calls (20), Trade and Signing Calls (7) and Mock Draft Picks (4) made up most of the rest, with small numbers of Fantasy Defense Calls, Fantasy Defense Rankings and Draft Bust Calls rounding out the week.

A large share of the week's misses came from one game: the Dolphins' 28-25 win over the Jets caught a stack of pundits who'd picked New York, including Lindsey Thiry, Conor Orr, Albert Breer, Matt Bowen and more than a dozen others, each scoring 0 on that call. The week's best calls included four pundits (Cody Rourke, Sayre Bedinger, O'Shea Jackson Jr. and Rob Bushka) who each produced season-long projections that scored 100 accuracy worth the maximum 200 MissedTakes Score credit, alongside Eisen's Raiders calls. The week's weakest calls were concentrated in San Francisco 49ers roster projections from the preseason, with Brian Peacock, Nathan Jahnke, Tom Jensen and Jose Sanchez all scoring 0 once their depth-chart and roster-spot calls were graded against what happened.