Justin Melo

Justin Melo covers the NFL Draft for Sports Illustrated and the DLLS Dallas Cowboys podcast, tracking prospects across the league with an eye toward how rookie classes are shaping up. Mock drafts, big-board risers, and rankings of first-round talent fill the coverage, with teams including the Cowboys, Jets, Titans and Seahawks.

More about Justin Melo ↓Writes at Sports Illustrated

Not ranked yetBuilding a record: 1 graded article

—MissedTakes Scorevs a naive guess · 0 = no better

50%Accuracyhow often the calls landed

2Graded callsacross 1 article

95Waitingnot graded yet

Is Justin Melo accurate?

Across 2 graded calls in 1 article, Justin Melo scores 50% accuracy.

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.

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

All 97 calls · one square per call

1hits50% of graded

1misses50%

95waitingnot graded yet

Where Justin Melo stands

All 87 ranked NFL pundits · dot size = graded calls · hover a dot for the name

MissedTakes Score

How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.

By kind

accuracy · graded calls

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Also called, too few graded to rateMock Draft Picks (2)

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How the calls are made

100%specific enough to check

30.13%hedged: a “probably”, a “could”

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Against the grain

Computed, never chosen

Teams and players where Justin Melo 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.

C.J. Carr+100
Outside the room in 3 of 3 articles — always higher · the strays aren’t settled yet

About Justin Melo

Where we read them: Sports Illustrated
Graded calls made: Jan 16, 2026
Graded articles: 1 · building a record

A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.

Every graded call, article by article

HitCloseMissWaiting

2 graded calls in 1 article, newest first. Every take from Justin Melo, including the ones still waiting →

Jan 16, 2026
Mello's Cowboys mock pairs Sonny Styles with injured Tennessee cornerback Jermott McCoy in the first round.Mock Draft Picks · 2 calls
1 hit · 1 miss · 1 of 2 graded calls landed
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- Sonny Styles to be picked “Cowboys first-round pick” (picks 1–32)
  “Justin Mello at the draft network... Sonny Styles and a blue star special, Jermott McCoy”