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Chad Ochocinco Johnson played wide receiver in the NFL for 11 seasons, most of them with the Cincinnati Bengals, who drafted Johnson in the second round in 2001. Johnson was a six-time Pro Bowler and three-time All-Pro, and holds most of the Bengals' receiving records. The nickname comes from the number 85, rendered in Spanish. After leaving the league, Johnson moved into media work; the predictions tracked here come from Fox Sports and the Nightcap podcast, covering the Browns, Bengals, Eagles, Rams, Jets, Raiders, Texans, Packers, and players including Deshaun Watson, George Pickens, Tyreek Hill, Shedeur Sanders and Myles Garrett.
Across 31 graded calls in 20 articles, Chad Ochocinco Johnson scores 43.27% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 6.75, 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 #63 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 74 calls · one square per call
12hits39% of graded
2Close6%
17misses55%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Chad Ochocinco Johnson played wide receiver in the NFL for 11 seasons, most of them with the Cincinnati Bengals, who drafted Johnson in the second round in 2001. Johnson was a six-time Pro Bowler and three-time All-Pro, and holds most of the Bengals' receiving records. The nickname comes from the number 85, rendered in Spanish. After leaving the league, Johnson moved into media work; the predictions tracked here come from Fox Sports and the Nightcap podcast, covering the Browns, Bengals, Eagles, Rams, Jets, Raiders, Texans, Packers, and players including Deshaun Watson, George Pickens, Tyreek Hill, Shedeur Sanders and Myles Garrett.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
31 graded calls in 20 articles, newest first — page 1 of 2. Every take from Chad Ochocinco Johnson, including the ones still waiting →
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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 Chad Ochocinco Johnson would be #74; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #63.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | Jack Markowski | 8.5 | 70% | 16 |
| 62 | Mitchell Eisenstein | 7.98 | 58.64% | 110 |
| 63 | Chad Ochocinco Johnson | 6.75 | 43.27% | 31 |
| 64 | Jeremy Brener | 5.5 | 74.8% | 17 |
| 65 | Manti Te'o | 5.22 | 35.09% | 65 |
Cincinnati Bengals to beat Jacksonville Jaguars
“The Jacksonville Jaguars is coming down to Cincinnati... It ain't happening this Sunday... I just want to see people's faces when we walk out with this W.”
Closing line (Oct 4): Bengals by 2.5 · favorite pick, Bengals 57%.
Houston Texans to beat Cowboys
“guarantee you the Texans win this game. And it's nothing against the Cowboys... the football gods aren't going to allow them to be 0-4.”
Closing line (Oct 4): Texans by 3 · favorite pick, Texans 58%.
Cincinnati Bengals to beat Steelers
“They finna get this work... Who they think they gonna beat these Bengals?”
Closing line (Sep 27): Bengals by 3.5 · favorite pick, Bengals 62%.
Cincinnati Bengals to beat Tampa
“I know so. Tampa ain't going to know what hit them.”
Closing line (Sep 13): Bengals by 3.5 · favorite pick, Bengals about 2 in 3 (64%).
Cincinnati Bengals to score 42 against Tampa
“And Bango going to put up about 42 points. I'm telling you that.”
Stefon Diggs to move
“What did I say? He would go BMO give it either Baltimore or the Commanders. I'm still standing on that too. ... You get picked up absolutely again. I bet it's one of those two teams.”
A.J. Brown to move to New England Patriots
“I tell y'all for three months A J. Brown will be in England”
Matthew Stafford to win MVP
“Mats Stafford is our MVP this year.”
Cincinnati Bengals to beat Ravens
“I gotta work the game in Baltimore... The Bengals Ravens game... But we finna win that game, Anna, and I're fin the talk track because I'm gonna be face to face with all the Ravens players.”
Closing line (Nov 27): Ravens by 7 · underdog pick, Bengals about 1 in 4 (24%).
Christian Gonzalez to finish top 5 at his position, by interceptions
“he needs to be in the conversation of top five dbs.”
Jaxon Smith-Njigba to record 2,000 receiving yards
“he just going head huper crazy, dude gonna get two thousand”