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Nick Wright covers the NFL with a focus on quarterback evaluations and team rankings. His predictions span game outcomes, draft positions, season win totals, and player awards, with particular attention to the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, and Chicago Bears. He weighs in on questions like Patrick Mahomes versus Josh Allen and the trajectory of young quarterbacks like Caleb Williams and Drake Maye.
Writes at Around the NFL (podcast)
Every take from Nick Wright, including the ones still waiting →
Is Nick Wright accurate? Across 445 graded calls in 71 articles, Nick Wright scores 59.6% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 16.01, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims. That is an established record: thirty or more graded articles.
92.99% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.
Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.
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Cincinnati Bengals to finish with 9 wins
“I'm gonna go Bengals under nine and a half”
San Francisco 49ers to finish with 10 wins
“I'm gonna go with one that I think you could take the Niners under ten and a half.”
Denver Broncos to finish with 9 wins
“the Denver Broncos are not winning ten games under nine and a half”
Dallas Cowboys to finish with 7 wins
“If you wanna, if you wanna step up here, make it eight and we go on different sides... Yeah, sure deal”
Kansas City Chiefs to finish with 12 wins
“that is the nobody believes in US underdog Kansas City Chiefs to go over eleven and a half wins”
Philadelphia Eagles to finish with 11 wins
“So I had the Commanders and the Eagles both eleven and six.”
Las Vegas Raiders to make the playoffs
“And listen, I on my show, I picked the Raiders to make the playoffs.”
Las Vegas Raiders to finish with 7 wins
“And that is the Las Vegas Raiders... I need seven wins for this. I think the Raiders over is a very very healthy bet.”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to finish with 10 wins
“that is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers over nine and a half”
Jacksonville Jaguars to finish with 10 wins
“the Jaguars over seven and a half... I think they can get to ten. So I will go over Jacksonville.”
Washington Commanders to finish with 11 wins
“So I had the Commanders and the Eagles both eleven and six.”
Indianapolis Colts to pick at number 1
“Yes, I think they could have the number one pick of the draft.”
Washington Commanders to win the division
“the Commander's baith on strength of scheduled tiebreaker or they're gonna win the division”
Buffalo Bills to finish with 12 wins
“I feel like the Bills are a twelve and five team. I don't think they're getting to thirteen wins.”
Denver Broncos to finish with 7 wins
“I think it is more than on the board that this team goes seven and ten. They are more likely to go seven and ten than ten and seven.”
Los Angeles Chargers to finish with 9 wins
“I think they probably go nine and eight and just miss out on the playoffs.”
Brock Bowers to finish top 1 at his position, by receiving yards
“I think brock Bowers is going to have the best statistical season of any tight end.”
Shedeur Sanders to be 3rd on the depth chart
“he started camp fourth string, he stayed fourth string. He's now third string because one of the strings is on the Raiders... he is fairly right now their third best option to starting quarterback”
Kansas City Chiefs to finish with 13 wins
“Twelve and five would disappoint me. I expect thirteen and four or better.”
Cincinnati Bengals to finish with 9 wins
“the Bengals have a carbon copy year of last year. They win nine games, they missed the playoffs, and they fire their head coach.”
Joe Flacco to be 1st on the depth chart
“the Browns start the season, they're bad. Third of the way into the season, they pull the plug on Flacco.”
Houston Texans to finish with 10 wins
“I don't think they're a dominant team... but I think they can get to ten wins.”
New England Patriots to make the playoffs
“I think the Patriots win nine or ten games, can make the playoffs”
Miami Dolphins to finish with 7 wins
“I will say it's a seven and ten Dolphins year, and I will go slightly under.”
New England Patriots to finish with 9–10 wins
“I think the Patriots win nine or ten games, can make the playoffs, and I will go over on the New England Patriots.”
Dillon Gabriel to be 1st on the depth chart
“Third of the way into the season, they pull the plug on Flacco. They go to Dylan Gabriel. They're still quite bad.”
“If you're here, is what my ranking would look like. If I were doing it, I would go one Patrick, two, Josh three, Lamar four, Joe five, Stafford six, Jalen Hurts seven with an asterisk of it's probably too early, but I give it to him, Jaden Daniels eight, Baker And then it gets trickier.”
Detroit Lions to finish with 10 wins
“could I see the Lions going from fifteen to two and the one seed to ten and seven in a wild card? Absolutely?”
Josh Simmons to be 1st on the depth chart
“I think the Chiefs getting Josh Simmons at pick thirty two as a potential franchise left tackle is as big of an offseason move as any team made.”
Las Vegas Raiders to make the playoffs
“the Browns are a team that I believe is going to make the play playoffs... And that is the Las Vegas Raiders... So the Raiders plus three point thirty to make the playoffs. That is my early first NFL season long Bet”
Las Vegas Raiders to finish with 9 wins
“that team absolutely can get to nine or ten wins and sneak into the playoffs”
Los Angeles Chargers to finish with 8 wins
“it's going to be even more exciting when Herbert goes eight and nine and you're like, but actually he throws such a tight spiral”
“If you're here, is what my rankings would look like. If I were doing, I would go one Patrick, two, Josh three, Lamar four, Joe five, Stafford six, Jalen Hurts seven with an asterisk of it's probably too early, but I give it to him. Jaden Daniels eight, Baker And then it gets trickier.”
Kansas City Chiefs to win the division
“It's not gonna be the Chiefs without a chair, and it's not gonna be the Chiefs not winning their division.”
Kansas City Chiefs to make the playoffs
“there are some teams everyone has penciled into the playoffs that are going to be left without a chair... It's not gonna be the Chiefs without a chair”