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Bucky Brooks played five NFL seasons as a kick returner after the Buffalo Bills made the selection in the second round of the 1994 draft. Now in a sixth season as an analyst for NFL Network and NFL.com, Brooks co-hosts the podcast Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah, and the two former scouts release multiple episodes each week covering game previews, reviews and draft scouting. Brooks also writes weekly columns for NFL.com and produces video features including Scout's Take and On the Beat. Beyond the network, the work appears on Fox Sports, Fox Sports Radio, Sports Illustrated and The Rich Eisen Podcast. In the 2024 preseason Brooks served as a commentator for the Jacksonville Jaguars TV Network. The predictions here cover NFL draft positioning, depth charts, player awards and accolades, fantasy sleepers and top-player rankings. Teams that appear include the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Cleveland Browns, Las Vegas Raiders, New York Jets, Tennessee Titans, Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings. Players named range from Shedeur Sanders and Caleb Downs to Bijan Robinson and Jeremiyah Love. In 2026, Brooks declared that Fernando Mendoza would be the number-one NFL draft pick while adding that Mendoza should not be.
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Across 119 graded calls in 27 articles, Bucky Brooks scores 73.7% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 31.2, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is a limited sample, under thirty graded articles, so treat it with caution. That ranks #26 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard.
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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 255 calls · one square per call
73hits61% of graded
26Close22%
20misses17%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Bucky Brooks played five NFL seasons as a kick returner after the Buffalo Bills made the selection in the second round of the 1994 draft. Now in a sixth season as an analyst for NFL Network and NFL.com, Brooks co-hosts the podcast Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah, and the two former scouts release multiple episodes each week covering game previews, reviews and draft scouting. Brooks also writes weekly columns for NFL.com and produces video features including Scout's Take and On the Beat. Beyond the network, the work appears on Fox Sports, Fox Sports Radio, Sports Illustrated and The Rich Eisen Podcast. In the 2024 preseason Brooks served as a commentator for the Jacksonville Jaguars TV Network. The predictions here cover NFL draft positioning, depth charts, player awards and accolades, fantasy sleepers and top-player rankings. Teams that appear include the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Cleveland Browns, Las Vegas Raiders, New York Jets, Tennessee Titans, Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings. Players named range from Shedeur Sanders and Caleb Downs to Bijan Robinson and Jeremiyah Love. In 2026, Brooks declared that Fernando Mendoza would be the number-one NFL draft pick while adding that Mendoza should not be.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
119 graded calls in 27 articles, newest first — page 1 of 5. Every take from Bucky Brooks, 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.
Seattle Seahawks to beat Chicago Bears
The same 87, by how often their calls landed, with no credit for difficulty.
Why the ranks differ: a naive guess scores very differently depending on which calls were made, from 15.25% on the hardest record here to 85.71% on the easiest. Accuracy alone flatters easy calls, so by accuracy Bucky Brooks would be #12; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #26.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Rich Hribar | 32.68 | 68.79% | 64 |
| 25 | Daniel Jeremiah | 32.65 | 75.27% | 277 |
| 26 | Bucky Brooks | 31.2 | 73.7% | 119 |
| 27 | Tyler Sullivan | 31.12 | 62.02% | 192 |
| 28 | Mike Renner | 30.86 | 61.26% | 125 |
“Bucky Brooks, NFL YouTube : Seattle Seahawks”
Closing line (Nov 2): Seahawks by 3 · favorite pick, Seahawks 60%.
Chicago Bears to beat Vikings
“with the Vikings set to take on the league's most explosive offense Sunday in Chicago ... And based on their head-to-head track record, I give Johnson the upper hand in Sunday's showdown.”
Closing line (Sep 20): Bears by 4.5 · favorite pick, Bears about 2 in 3 (66%).
Dallas Cowboys 31 — Texans 24
“Score prediction: Cowboys 31, Texans 24”
Keenan Allen to move to Indianapolis Colts
“Keenan Allen is a newbie to the Colts. They don't have a long-term tie. I would think that probably could lead to his dismissal.”
J.J. McCarthy to move to Minnesota Vikings
“What it means is when these things begin to leak out like this, they're trying to soften the blow for when it eventually happens. So... whether they trade or release them, he's not going to be there.”
Josh Johnson to land on the practice squad
“More than likely, they'll still let him go and hope that they can either save him by putting him on the practice squad”
Stefon Diggs to move to Washington Commanders
“Look, it can be difficult to play at home sometimes, but I think this situation may work out for both parties. One, the commanders need another receiver opposite ter McLaurin”
Domonique Orange to be picked “Taken day two... third round” (picks 65–100)
“Solid player, and I think he's an integral part of a defense. Taking day two, we talk about making the third round”