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JP Acosta covers the NFL for CBS Sports and co-hosts the podcasts Around the NFL and Pushing the Pile. Acosta writes on draft projections, depth chart predictions, trade deadline analysis and preseason unit rankings, with recent pieces on the Jaguars, Texans, Cowboys, Patriots and Chargers.
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Across 142 graded calls in 18 articles, JP Acosta scores 59.01% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 21.48, 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 #40 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard. Their strongest kind of call is Mock Draft Picks (66.9% accuracy across 69 graded calls); their weakest is Game Outcome Picks (38.79% across 26 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 244 calls · one square per call
68hits48% of graded
36Close25%
38misses27%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Teams and players where JP Acosta 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 higher · when they strayed: 59.9 accuracy (2 settled)
JP Acosta covers the NFL for CBS Sports and co-hosts the podcasts Around the NFL and Pushing the Pile. Acosta writes on draft projections, depth chart predictions, trade deadline analysis and preseason unit rankings, with recent pieces on the Jaguars, Texans, Cowboys, Patriots and Chargers.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
142 graded calls in 18 articles, newest first — page 1 of 5. Every take from JP Acosta, including the ones still waiting →
102waitingnot 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 JP Acosta would be #49; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #40.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | Rich Eisen | 21.49 | 61.89% | 491 |
| 39 | Gregg Rosenthal | 21.48 | 63.14% | 319 |
| 40 | JP Acosta | 21.48 | 59.01% | 142 |
| 41 | Marcus Mosher | 21.16 | 81.66% | 77 |
| 42 | Shannon Sharpe | 20.84 | 65.2% | 33 |
Garrett Nussmeier to be 3rd quarterback off the board
“Garrett Nussmeier is the third quarterback off the board to the Arizona Cardinals. I don't think it's gonna be at 34, but I I've said before that the gap between Simpson Nussmeier isn't as big”
R Mason Thomas to be picked at number 33
“Pick 33 to the niners. I think R Mason Thomas is a first round caliber player.”