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Brendon Nelson covers the Seattle Seahawks for Sports Illustrated, writing on roster moves, injury updates, game previews and the draft. The work also tracks the Bears, Cardinals and Rams when Seattle's schedule brings them into frame.
Across 6 graded calls in 5 articles, Brendon Nelson scores 60% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 2.27, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is a provisional record, fewer than ten graded articles, so the numbers are not yet meaningful and they are not ranked on the leaderboard.
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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 52 calls · one square per call
3hits50% of graded
1Close17%
2misses33%
46
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
No kind has five graded calls yet, so none is rated.
Brendon Nelson covers the Seattle Seahawks for Sports Illustrated, writing on roster moves, injury updates, game previews and the draft. The work also tracks the Bears, Cardinals and Rams when Seattle's schedule brings them into frame.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
6 graded calls in 5 articles, newest first. Every take from Brendon Nelson, including the ones still waiting →
Game calls show that game’s closing betting line under their grade: a dated fact from nflverse, for context and never part of a grade. MissedTakes takes no bets and earns nothing from any sportsbook.
The same 87, by how often their calls landed, with no credit for difficulty.
Brendon Nelson isn’t ranked yet: a record is ranked from 10 graded articles, so a lucky first handful can’t top the table.
Seattle Seahawks 20 — 49ers 17
“Brendon Nelson: Seahawks 20, 49ers 17”
Closing line (Oct 11): Seahawks by 3, total 46.5 · this 20–17 calls the line’s margin (Seahawks by 3) and fewer points (37).
Seattle Seahawks to beat Commanders
“This team is clearly good enough to beat the Cardinals and Commanders with Drew Lock.”
Seattle Seahawks to beat Cardinals
“This team is clearly good enough to beat the Cardinals and Commanders with Drew Lock.”
Jason Myers to make the roster
“Given Myers has been here for nearly a decade, I suspect the team will give him as much time as possible to figure it out. ... Ultimately, this team will live with Myers”
Bobby Hart to be cut
“The problem spots were mostly players that won’t make the team, like Bobby Hart and Logan Brown.”
Montorie Foster Jr to make the roster
“But Foster isn't taking it laying down so far in camp, and today he had two touchdowns, one on a Superman-like dive. Don't count him out.”