Brendon Nelson

Brendon Nelson covers the Seattle Seahawks for Sports Illustrated, tracking everything from roster moves and depth chart shuffles to draft positioning and playoff prospects. His work spans player health updates, trade analysis, and mock drafts—the full spectrum of what it takes to follow an NFL franchise through a season.

Writes at Sports Illustrated

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Is Brendon Nelson accurate? Across 3 graded calls in 2 articles, Brendon Nelson scores 75% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 100, 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.

75%

Accuracy

How often they were right.

100

MissedTakes Score

Versus a naive guess. 0 means no better.

Graded calls

across 2 articles. 25 more not yet settled.

Fewer than 10 graded articles. Treat this as provisional.

100% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.

Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.

Graded calls · 3

Nelson expects Sam Darnold to miss the Cardinals game and likely the Commanders game, with Drew Lock starting in his place, and believes Seattle is good enough to beat both Arizona and Washington with Lock under center.2 graded calls · Sep 12, 2026
- Seattle Seahawks to beat Commanders
  “This team is clearly good enough to beat the Cardinals and Commanders with Drew Lock.”
  Miss · 0Scored 0a naive guess scored 100-200 skill
  How this was scored
  won:
  WAS
  score:
  31-33
  skill:
  -200
  they picked:
  SEA
  season:
  2026
  accuracy:
  0
  baseline:
  100
  the naive pick:
  WAS
  difficulty:
  2
  weeks in the season: