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Daniel Jeremiah spent years as a college scout with the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles before joining NFL Network in 2012, where Jeremiah now works as an analyst and writer. Jeremiah also calls Los Angeles Chargers games on KFI radio. A former quarterback at Northeastern Louisiana and Appalachian State, Jeremiah's predictions cover draft boards, combine measurements, player movement and game outcomes. The work appears across NFL Network, The 33rd Team and podcasts including Move the Sticks, Around the NFL and The Rich Eisen Show. Teams in focus include the Giants, Jets, Titans, Chiefs, Chargers, Raiders, Cardinals and Browns.
Across 277 graded calls in 41 articles, Daniel Jeremiah scores 75.27% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 32.65, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is an established record: thirty or more graded articles. That ranks #25 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard. Their strongest kind of call is Mock Draft Picks (72.97% accuracy across 226 graded calls); their weakest is Combine Measurements (61.14% across 13 graded calls).
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Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 375 calls · one square per call
135hits49% of graded
96Close35%
46misses17%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Teams and players where Daniel Jeremiah keeps landing outside the room: at least twice, their call sat beyond every other pundit who made a comparable one — higher or lower than all of them, in a room of at least five voices. The bar is their standing lean (+100 would be the most bullish voice in every room), and the accuracy covers just those out-on-a-limb calls, once they settle.
Outside the room in 2 of 2 articles — always lower · when they strayed: 91.8 accuracy (2 settled)
Daniel Jeremiah is an analyst and writer for NFL Network and NFL.com, where the job has been talking about football since May 2012. Jeremiah also works as the color commentator on Los Angeles Chargers radio broadcasts for KFI. What we have from Jeremiah is overwhelmingly spoken rather than typed: of the 48 pieces we hold, published between January 2025 and October 2026, 47 are podcast or broadcast transcripts.
The subject is the draft, first and foremost. Mock draft picks make up the bulk of what we have resolved, 273 of them, followed by combine measurements, calls on the order in which positions come off the board, ranked lists of top players and depth chart projections. Episode titles give the rhythm of the calendar: a Mock Draft 2.0, a 3.0, a final first-round mock for 2026 and a final top 50 prospects list in draft week, then a recap of favorite first-round picks once the names are called. The 2026 class runs all through it, with Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiyah Love, Rueben Bain, Ty Simpson, Kenyon Sadiq, Carnell Tate, Sonny Styles, Makai Lemon, Monroe Freeling and Denzel Boston among the prospects who come up again and again. Game outcomes and player movement appear as well, but as side dishes.
The home base is Move the Sticks, which accounts for 32 of the 48 pieces. Its recurring segments include "40s and Free Agents," teams holding multiple first-round picks, and an alternating mock draft built in tandem with Bucky Brooks, who shows up throughout as co-host and sparring partner. The Rich Eisen Show supplies eight more, with Jeremiah booked as an NFL Network analyst between Eisen's own rankings segments. The rest is scattered: Locked On Chargers twice in 2026, plus single appearances on Around the NFL and KC Sports Network. Other shows also pick up the mocks secondhand, as when Locked On Cardinals built an episode around a projection sending Miami's Francis Mauigoa to Arizona. The count climbs from 13 pieces in 2025 to 35 in 2026, which tracks with a draft cycle heating up.
277 graded calls in 41 articles, newest first — page 1 of 9. Every take from Daniel Jeremiah, 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.
98waitingnot graded yet
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 Daniel Jeremiah would be #7; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #25.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Jordan Dajani | 32.79 | 66.1% | 116 |
| 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 |
Outside the room in 2 of 2 articles — always lower · when they strayed: 89.8 accuracy (2 settled)
Outside the room in 2 of 5 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Outside the room in 2 of 3 articles — always lower · when they strayed: 84.4 accuracy (2 settled)
Outside the room in 2 of 4 articles — always lower · when they strayed: 59.5 accuracy (2 settled)
Outside the room in 2 of 5 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Certain franchises keep resurfacing in the calls: the Jets, Giants, Titans, Browns, Raiders, Chiefs, Cardinals and Chargers, the last of them also the team Jeremiah follows from the broadcast booth. Draft-week material on the Giants, framed as positioned for a franchise-changing class, sits alongside fixes for teams without a first-round pick.
The evaluating started long before the microphone. Jeremiah was a starting quarterback at Northeastern Louisiana in 1997 and at Appalachian State from 1998 to 2000, then worked as a college scout for the Baltimore Ravens, the Cleveland Browns and the Philadelphia Eagles. That scouting background is the throughline here: the mocks, the measurements and the positional orderings are a former front-office evaluator's habits, carried over to a podcast audience. Born December 5, 1977, Jeremiah is married with four children and is the son of David Jeremiah, author and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church.
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Seattle Seahawks to beat Chiefs
“This is a defensive showcase game for me. I think they get right back on track here with this one, and the Chiefs get their first loss.”
Closing line (Oct 25): Seahawks by 3 · favorite pick, Seahawks 59%.
Stetson Bennett to make the roster
“I would be of the idea of let's keep three, and and go that route... I I would lean towards three.”