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Matt Severance writes on the NFL for CBS Sports, covering teams including the Bills, Chiefs, Bengals and Raiders. Severance's predictions move from game previews and parlay picks to season-long futures like Comeback Player of the Year and Offensive Rookie of the Year, touching players such as Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Hunter.
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Across 3 graded calls in 3 articles, Matt Severance scores 98.41% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 72.96, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.
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 32 calls · one square per call
3hits100% of graded
29waitingnot graded yet
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
No kind has five graded calls yet, so none is rated.
Matt Severance writes on the NFL for CBS Sports, covering teams including the Bills, Chiefs, Bengals and Raiders. Severance's predictions move from game previews and parlay picks to season-long futures like Comeback Player of the Year and Offensive Rookie of the Year, touching players such as Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Hunter.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
3 graded calls in 3 articles, newest first. Every take from Matt Severance, 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.
The same 87, by how often their calls landed, with no credit for difficulty.
Matt Severance isn’t ranked yet: a record is ranked from 10 graded articles, so a lucky first handful can’t top the table.
Buffalo Bills 31 — Chargers 21
“The SportsLine Projection Model has Buffalo winning 31-21.”
Closing line (Sep 27): Bills by 7, total 50.5 · this 31–21 calls a bigger Bills win (by 10) and more points (52).
Deshaun Watson to be 1st on the depth chart
“first-year coach Todd Monken ... didn't name Watson as his Week 2 starter right away over Sanders but it will be Watson”
Jacksonville Jaguars to beat Cleveland
“Jacksonville opens the season Sept. 13 at home vs. Cleveland and is a 7.5-point favorite. ... I seriously doubt they lose”