# Kyle Brandt — prediction record Kyle Brandt is a television host and media personality who serves as one of the hosts of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. Before moving into sports media, Brandt played Philip Kiriakis on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and appeared on The Real World: Chicago. Brandt also spent seven years as executive producer of The Jim Rome Show and hosted the game show Frogger. The predictions here cover game outcomes, playoff berths, division winners, draft positions, and player awards. Teams mentioned include the Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Chargers, and Los Angeles Rams. Players named range from Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders to Saquon Barkley and Aaron Rodgers. ## About Kyle Brandt Kyle Robert Brandt, born January 24, 1979, is an American television host, media personality and actor, and one of the hosts of Good Morning Football on NFL Network. Most of what we hold from Brandt was said out loud rather than typed: 33 of the 34 pieces collected between January 2025 and November 2026 are podcast or broadcast transcripts. The predictions are NFL ones, and they follow the rhythms of a daily football show. Playoff picks come first, with 28 resolved, followed by division winners (20), individual game picks (12), award picks (9) and mock draft picks (9). Power rankings, top-player lists and coaching awards appear too. The episode titles read like a season calendar: MVP predictions in opening week, Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year segments, Survivor Picks, Super Bowl picks, and a Saturday installment billed as a "Preseason Prediction Check!" in which the show circles back to its own summer calls. The work is overwhelmingly audio. Thirty-two pieces are filed under the Move the Sticks podcast across 2025 and 2026, one under the Good Morning Football podcast in 2026, and one, the only written entry, under CBS Sports in 2026. The volume is concentrated in 2025, with 30 pieces, against four from 2026. Among the headlines we hold is one asking whether the winless Titans should bench Cam Ward and arguing that abandoning the former No. 1 pick would not fix Tennessee's problems. The teams that recur are the Bills, Steelers, Patriots, Titans, Eagles, Seahawks, Chargers and Rams. The Eagles show up again and again in episode titles, from an opener to an Eagles-Cowboys preview to an Eagles win, and the Patriots get a Friday segment titled "Patriots Win Super Bowl IF....." with the condition left hanging. The players discussed include Cam Ward, Cam Skattebo, Aaron Rodgers, Tyler Warren, Ashton Jeanty, Shemar Stewart, Josh Palmer, Saquon Barkley, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders, with Ward and the Titans drawing the most direct argument in the material we hold. The route to the morning football desk was not a straight one. Brandt was executive producer of The Jim Rome Show from 2009 until 2016. Before that came a run playing Philip Kiriakis on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and a place in the cast of The Real World: Chicago on MTV, plus a stint hosting the game show Frogger. Scripted drama, reality television, a game show and years behind the scenes of sports talk radio all came before the playoff picks. - **Where we read them:** Move the Sticks (podcast) (32), CBS Sports (1), Good Morning Football (podcast) (1) - **X:** https://x.com/KyleBrandt ## Is Kyle Brandt accurate? Across 105 graded calls in 30 articles, Kyle Brandt scores 53.9% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 11.71, 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 #56 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard. ## Record - **Accuracy:** 53.9% - **MissedTakes Score:** 11.71 - **Graded articles:** 30 - **Graded individual calls:** 105 - **Clarity:** 97.14% - **Hedged:** 19.29% of claims - **Right when hedging:** 72.81% (14 graded) - **Right when committing:** 55.06% (91 graded) This is an established record: 30 or more graded articles. The MissedTakes Score is how much better than a naive baseline they did, not how often they were right. Zero means no better than a strategy requiring no knowledge. A record is counted in ARTICLES rather than individual calls, because thirty picks in one mock draft is one act of judgment rather than thirty. Full method: https://missedtakes.co/methodology ## Graded articles (30) ### Feb 6, 2026 — scored 34.53 across 2 calls Kyle picked the Patriots to win the Super Bowl 20-17 on a walk-off field goal. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/deced34a-03aa-4e8f-8bff-909c6077fd3b ### Jan 6, 2026 — scored 85 across 1 call Ranked the remaining AFC field with Jacksonville first, Buffalo second and Pittsburgh sixth, and called Jim Harbaugh a top-three head coach in the NFL. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/72a5160b-e542-401b-863d-6843c9b58290 ### Dec 5, 2025 — scored 50 across 4 calls Brandt picked the Broncos to beat the Raiders, the Rams to beat the Cardinals, and the Chiefs to beat the Texans on Sunday Night Football, adding that Kansas City would avoid falling to 6-7. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/548972a1-4bfc-4a92-a912-ce89bd5ec70c ### Nov 1, 2025 — scored 60 across 5 calls Stands by all their preseason picks, most proud of the Seahawks winning the NFC West, and doubles down on the Steelers making the playoffs at 9-8 or 10-7. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/9b73596f-18f6-4b5c-92e9-d8195ad9446b ### Oct 30, 2025 — scored 100 across 3 calls Brandt expects Buffalo to beat Kansas City in their regular-season meeting, consistent with the rivalry's pattern, and thinks the Patriots hosting a playoff game under Mike Vrabel would surprise nobody. Looking back at their preseason picks, they stand by the Seahawks winning the NFC West and doubles down on the Steelers making the playoffs. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/8744c3f7-a1e1-4083-835c-855851a257d9 ### Oct 15, 2025 — scored 68.89 across 3 calls Named the Colts the best team in the NFL right now, ahead of the Chiefs, Lions, Rams and Buccaneers, also saying the Chiefs will host at least one playoff game, expecting the Chargers to make the playoffs, and calling rookie Tyler Warren maybe the league's best tight end. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/d2e2dced-7130-47b9-8fe6-2c49261e5231 ### Sep 6, 2025 — scored 50 across 18 calls Kyle picked Shemar Stewart as Defensive Rookie of the Year, Cam Ward as Offensive Rookie of the Year, Ben Johnson as Coach of the Year, and laid out a full 14-team playoff field including Eagles as Super Bowl champs. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/89676ba1-e346-4353-827c-806d9af9649f ### Sep 5, 2025 — scored 0 across 1 call With the last survival pick, they took the Patriots to beat the Raiders in Foxborough. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/7bb38d5d-2529-4b00-a6fa-91c9b59a7f62 ### Sep 4, 2025 — scored 56.25 across 8 calls Predicted the Bills make the playoffs and beat the Steelers, Chiefs and Ravens en route to a 20-19 Super Bowl win over the Eagles on a last-second 47-yard field goal, with James Cook as Super Bowl MVP. They also picked the Eagles to win tonight's opener... actually their in-game score pick was the Bills-Eagles Super Bowl. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/85afad87-40da-4940-81e6-70e2b0aad37d ### Sep 4, 2025 — scored 0 across 1 call Brandt stopped short of a formal upset pick but said they would not be surprised if the Cowboys beat the Eagles outright in the opener. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/6e227cba-5e10-4f4c-a652-7de27fa7ad46 ### Sep 3, 2025 — scored 40 across 10 calls Brandt picks Jalen Hurts as 2025 NFL MVP, predicts the Seahawks win the NFC West, has the Steelers, Patriots and Chargers in the AFC playoffs and the Lions as an NFC wild card, and takes Maxx Crosby as Defensive Player of the Year. They also say Saquon Barkley won't reach 2,000 rushing yards again but will score more. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/d963e1b3-bed3-4c42-8d5a-2c7a0b14b1ae ### Sep 3, 2025 — scored 0 across 1 call Kyle Brandt picked Jordan Mailata to have a big night in the opener and picked the Lions to win at Lambeau Field for a fourth straight time. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/c538ceb5-29cd-4a99-9c18-3c904bbfba47 ### Sep 2, 2025 — scored 57.14 across 14 calls Brandt picked all 14 playoff teams: AFC division winners Chiefs, Ravens, Bills and Texans with wild cards Chargers, Steelers and Patriots; NFC division winners Eagles, Buccaneers, Seahawks and Bears with wild cards Lions, Packers and Rams. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/4da05f13-4788-4700-8e30-4bbe02c8279a ### Sep 1, 2025 — scored 25 across 4 calls Brandt picked Ben Johnson for Coach of the Year, Shemar Stewart of the Bengals as Defensive Rookie of the Year, and Titans No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward as Offensive Rookie of the Year, adding that Ward will start Week 1. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/05be4700-0c81-4036-8de5-bfd7ae61b0f9 ### Sep 1, 2025 — scored 19.08 across 3 calls Brandt predicts Saquon Barkley will not repeat their 2,000-yard season, landing closer to 1,400-1,500 rushing yards; they pick Ben Johnson as 2025 Coach of the Year, Jayden Daniels as the second-year QB they have most faith in (reaching the Super Bowl), and predicts the Bears could make a deep run. They also predict the top four of the NFL Top 100 list. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/ac183fbc-a29f-4d12-9169-63bbca91860d ### Aug 12, 2025 — scored 50 across 2 calls Brandt says he's nervous about Matthew Stafford's back but would still pick the Rams to win the NFC West and make the playoffs; he also flags the Seahawks as an ascending team he likes this season, floating a 12-5 or 11-6 record. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/c13e77b6-eb14-48bc-b7e8-2172cabe0552 ### Jun 13, 2025 — scored 75 across 1 call Says the Eagles are the class of the NFC and that Dallas's best isn't good enough to beat Philadelphia's best; also gives their top three strongest arms in the NFL. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/d06fa303-9ee2-4bce-a517-2fd0a4bdc4ae ### May 8, 2025 — scored 40 across 1 call Kyle Brandt ranked their top five NFL wide receiver duos, deliberately excluding newly formed pairings, with Cincinnati first and Tampa Bay fifth. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/88c49d42-2a19-4ded-807c-4ac54bece76b ### May 7, 2025 — scored 66.67 across 3 calls Brandt insisted the Steelers won't have a losing season — they'll find a way to nine or ten wins in 2025 — and said they will pick them to make the playoffs. They also picked Dallas over Pittsburgh to win a playoff game first. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/45146c8c-a6f0-4b02-bfa4-82d371820e2e ### Apr 28, 2025 — scored 66.67 across 3 calls Brandt doubted Shedeur Sanders would make the Browns' 53-man roster given the crowded QB room, while predicting Cleveland keeps third-rounder Dillon Gabriel. They also had sky-high expectations for Cam Skattebo with the Giants, joking about Rookie of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year and MVP. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/286364fb-4acf-409a-b480-91bd3c9b000a ### Apr 22, 2025 — scored 75 across 3 calls Brandt says Tyler Warren will be drafted before Colston Loveland, but that Loveland is still a potential top-10-to-15 pick, and that Ashton Jeanty will be a top-ten pick; they also list their five "Angry Runs" watch-list prospects most likely to earn a scepter as rookies. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/4e741614-aaca-4da1-b724-c2c975bdf598 ### Apr 21, 2025 — scored 100 across 1 call Brandt insists Cam Ward will be the No. 1 overall pick as the best player in the draft, and predicts Ashton Jeanty won't fall past pick six or seven. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/cf3ad678-a0a0-49c1-a265-69812a3e5048 ### Apr 12, 2025 — scored 73.29 across 4 calls In the mock draft they had Abdul Carter to New England at No. 4, Tyler Warren to Jacksonville at No. 5, Omarion Hampton to Dallas at No. 12 and Matthew Golden to Miami at No. 13. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/4826d22d-b193-42ba-aa41-2b381453cefb ### Mar 27, 2025 — scored 100 across 1 call Expects Aaron Rodgers to end up signing with the Steelers, which would finally kill the Rodgers-to-Minnesota talk. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/4ef72d95-4361-4da0-91c1-429b97c60c03 ### Mar 3, 2025 — scored 1.1 across 1 call Brandt says Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo is the No. 1 player on his board and that his mock draft has Skattebo going first overall to the Titans, and he predicts Skattebo will run a 40-yard dash in the high 4.5s when he eventually runs one. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/c7aa7589-1d25-4528-89fe-05d02b97fde1 ### Feb 15, 2025 — scored 0 across 1 call Brandt said the Jets are better off without Aaron Rodgers and predicted Rodgers has played their last NFL snap — they won't sign with the Steelers or anyone else. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/fc851bb1-a27f-423e-96c6-4fffa200bdb7 ### Feb 15, 2025 — scored 100 across 1 call Brandt gave their top five Eagles of the season, headed by Saquon Barkley. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/cf6528e8-2f66-4e6a-ae17-b9550abcbb0a ### Feb 13, 2025 — scored 100 across 1 call Brandt ranked their top five Eagles players, with Saquon Barkley first and Jalen Hurts fifth, and called Lane Johnson the best tackle in football this season. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/6b5cb84e-89fa-457d-8c42-75d3a2dd484c ### Jan 24, 2025 — scored 47.62 across 1 call Brandt predicted the Bills would beat the Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game by a score of 29-25, arguing officiating wouldn't be the story and that Buffalo is simply the better football team. They also predicted extracurricular scrapping in the NFC title game. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/bd55a7d8-27d4-482e-a8e6-77b352860758 ### Jan 10, 2025 — scored 100 across 1 call Brandt predicted the Bills would beat the Broncos comfortably in Buffalo. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/454b1a45-8d7b-490d-898a-4970fe603523 ### Jan 7, 2025 — scored 87.5 across 2 calls Brandt ranked the AFC wild card teams Chargers, Steelers, Broncos and the NFC wild card teams Vikings, Commanders, Packers, saying the Packers won't reach the Super Bowl this year. https://missedtakes.co/opinions/15a367a9-3864-4169-bb6e-ab81f30a4045 --- We grade claims about outcomes, never claims about people. If something here is wrong, tell us: https://missedtakes.co/corrections?pundit=kyle-brandt