Top Player Lists
Scored under the published methodology, which sets out what counts as right, what a naive guess would have said, and why an earlier call is worth more than a late one.
- Takes logged
- 350
- Graded
- 73
- Average accuracy
- 56.8
- Pundits
- 131
21% settled
out of 100
have made one
How these calls land
Takes in each band
Settled or waiting
73 / 350
graded
277 still pending
By season
- 20221 of 1 graded
- 202314 of 16 graded
- 202416 of 24 graded
- 202542 of 63 graded
- 20260 of 246 graded
Who is good at top player lists
- Danny G100 accuracy · 1 graded+100.0
- Jason Cabinda100 accuracy · 1 graded+100.0
- Mike Mayock95 accuracy · 1 graded+90.0
- Kyle Crabbs86 accuracy · 1 graded+72.1
- Daniel Jeremiah84 accuracy · 2 graded+68.8
- Matt Harmon80 accuracy · 2 graded+60.2
- John Middlekauff75 accuracy · 1 graded+50.0
- Robert Smith83 accuracy · 1 graded+33.0
- Marcus Mosher78 accuracy · 1 graded+28.3
- Kyle Brandt75 accuracy · 4 graded+25.0
- Bucky Brooks73 accuracy · 1 graded+23.0
- Charles McDonald61 accuracy · 1 graded+22.4
- Nick Shook60 accuracy · 1 graded+20.0
- Jordan Vanek63 accuracy · 1 graded+19.8
- Nick Wright56 accuracy · 3 graded+16.6
- Patrick Claybon58 accuracy · 2 graded+15.2
- Chad Millman57 accuracy · 1 graded+13.7
- Logan Ryan56 accuracy · 1 graded+11.9
- Peter Schrager52 accuracy · 2 graded+10.4
- Chad Ochocinco Johnson55 accuracy · 1 graded+10.0
- Connor Livesay60 accuracy · 1 graded+10.0
- Isaiah Stanback55 accuracy · 1 graded+10.0
- Simon Hunter55 accuracy · 1 graded+9.9
- Kevin Riley55 accuracy · 1 graded+7.0
- Jeremy Fowler52 accuracy · 2 graded+4.2
- Gregg Rosenthal55 accuracy · 6 graded+3.2
- Manti Te'o50 accuracy · 1 graded+0.0
- Danny Parkins48 accuracy · 2 graded-4.2
- ESPN44 accuracy · 1 graded-11.5
- Rich Eisen40 accuracy · 1 graded-20.0
- Chris Simms40 accuracy · 1 graded-20.0
- Dan Patrick20 accuracy · 2 graded-30.0
- Shannon Sharpe25 accuracy · 1 graded-34.8
- Justin Penik15 accuracy · 2 graded-35.0
- Colin Cowherd29 accuracy · 2 graded-42.5
- Jamie Erdahl0 accuracy · 2 graded-50.0
provisionalRatings this early are samples, not reputations — the methodology sets out how many articles it takes before we call one settled.
By publisher
- 3 and Out with John Middlekauff (podcast)75.0 · 1 graded
- The 33rd Team75.1 · 21 graded
- Overreaction Monday (podcast)68.8 · 1 graded
- What's Wright? with Nick Wright (podcast)71.5 · 3 graded
- The Rich Eisen Show (podcast)62.4 · 4 graded
- Move the Sticks (podcast)61.4 · 14 graded
- Around the NFL (podcast)62.5 · 11 graded
- The Herd with Colin Cowherd (podcast)58.3 · 7 graded
- The Dan Patrick Show (podcast)30.9 · 5 graded
- Nightcap (podcast)33.8 · 4 graded
- First Things First (podcast)0.0 · 1 graded
- The Colin Cowherd Podcast (podcast)0.0 · 1 graded
Every top player lists take
226–250 of 350
My top five favorite NFL draft picks presented by Hyundai... Number five... Jennings Dunker... Number four... Oliva Venga Yoani... Number three... Fernando Mendoza... Number two... Caleb Downs... Number one on the list is a duo... Ur Bernard and Eli Heidenreich are number one.
Number 10. It's Makai Levin, Philadelphia Eagles... I'm putting David Bailey here... Number eight on the list is a guy who's taken fourth overall, Carnell Tate... Dylan Thieneman, I think, is going to have a role... Number six... I'm putting Fernando Mendoza here... Venga Yoani is number five... Mansour Delaine in Kansas City is number four... Number three is Sonny Styles... Caleb Downs... And then number one, my top NFL draftee who will live up to the billing... It's Jeremiah Love.
So Caleb Downs is my number three overall player.
I got DJ came out with his final top fifty draft prospects. It's out on NFL dot Com... Fernando Mendoza remains his number one, Jeremy I Love at two, Styles at three, David Bailey four, arvro Reese at five, Cardinal Tate six, Ruben Baines seven, Eight is Caleb Downs who moved up a spot. Mansell Delaine is nine, and Francis Mawanoa is ten.
So it's Mansour DeLayne, it's Jermall McCoy, it's Chris Johnson probably, and Colton Hood. Those are really your top four corners.
Harmon from reception perception has KC Concepcion at number two.
Matty did have Casey Concepcion as wide receivers three in his class with Mikayla in one, Karl Tate two, Jordan Tyson four, is how he had that.
So my number one edge is Ruben Bayne out of Miami, and I have first round grades on Reuben Bain, David Bailey out of Texas Tech, and Malachi Lawrence out of Central Florida... In terms of late first, early second round, I have Keldrick Falk out of Auburn and then Akeem Mesador out of Miami. Second round grades, Gabe Yakis or Aches out of Illinois... Zion Young out of Missouri, Cassius Howell out of Texas a and m, our Mason Thomas out of Oklahoma, TJ Parker out of Clemson... a late two early three on Deshaun Barham out of Michigan... third round grade out of Kieran Crawford out of Auburn and Joshua Joseph's out of Tennessee. Fourth round grades on Romello Height and Derek Moore... a late fourth, early fifth on Danny Dennis Sutton out of Penn State, and then a fifth round grade out of l on LT Overton out of Alabama.
The top guy in this year's NFL draft class that fits that profile, Cincinnati wide receiver, Jeff Caldwell coming in second. North Dakota state receiver, Bryce Lance... Georgia State's Ted Hurst is tenth. ... Mckay Lemon actually ended up coming in eleventh overall.
Sonny Styles is number one... And then Red Murdoch is number 14 out of Buffalo, late six, early seven in terms of where I value him.
Chris Brazzle the second... Jeremy Bernard from Alabama, square in that day two mix. Ted Hurst might be my my number one guy of that group. And I love Brazel too... those guys, like, if they're there at 52... less less Bernard, but more Hearst and Brazel
That's the list right now. Omar Cooper junior, Makai Lemon, Casey Concepcion, Denzel Boston, Skyler Bell, Ted Hurst, Zachariah Branch, Caleb Douglas, Chris Bell, Chris Brasel, Jeremy Bernard, Malachi Fields... That's how Croc ranks them today.
Carnell Tait is my sixth player in Monroe. Freeling is my twentieth player.
Arbel Rees is my number one edge, followed by Bailey and Bain. All of them very, very tight because Reiss is such a projection.
for ME i Have tate number, One lemon, Two tyson, three but they are so tightly bunched in my rankings
Top fifty review... I got Mendoza one. Jeremiah loved two styles... Bailey stayed at my top edge. He's four. Five is rvel Reese... and we finish it up with Antonio Williams receiver from Clemson, Chase Pisantis interior lineman from A and M, and then the last but not least, Jeremy Bernard from Alabama.
he's my second player. There's only one more spot for him to go... I probably just stick with the quarterback at this point in time with Mendoza... I had him as my fortieth player come out of the combine.
Who's your number one? Terrell Terrell. Avion Terrell.
- PendingDLLS Dallas Cowboys (podcast)Top Player Lists2026 season
That's my stack real quick. Okay. Let's see. Best players in the draft. Sonny Styles, Caleb Downs, Jeremiah Love, Ruben Bain, David Bailey, Mansour Delaine, Francis, Maui Noah, Jermoud McCoy. Joe well, we'll talk about Jordan. Yeah. We might have to move Jordan Tyson a little ... Just tear down the first nine.
Waiting on the season to settle this.said Mar 3, 2026 - PendingDLLS Dallas Cowboys (podcast)Top Player Lists2026 season
Because I would take Delaine at twelve. Terrell at twenty, we both would say absolutely... I have him as my third corner... that's my three players.
Waiting on the season to settle this.said Mar 3, 2026 So he has Mendoza one, which is aggressive, but fine. Jeremiah Love is two. Reese is third. Bailey's four. Tate's five. Downs, Styles, Tyson, Bane. K. First tackle, Malagua, 10. Fano, 12. Freeling, 19, Lomu out of Utah, 21, and Procter's not even on this thing.
He was number five on my top five list at tight ends. ... Your number two tight end, right, Dallen Bentley from Utah
he's my second overall player... I think he's my fifth overall player.
He is my number one defensive tackle in this league... The other guy was Lee Hunter. My number one and number two tackles at this point.
I think the good players avam is Malinoi's my twelfth player, Final is my fourteenth player.
By topic
NFL — top player lists (73 graded)
Topics we cover today: NFL, US Elections, The Economy. Every kind of prediction belongs to one of them; this page sits above the topic so that adding another does not mean rewriting every link.