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Pete Prisco covers the NFL for CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated, with appearances on the Locked On Packers podcast. The predictions here touch teams across the league, from the Jaguars and Cowboys to the Lions and Packers, including weekly game picks, Super Bowl forecasts and power rankings.
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Across 203 graded calls in 47 articles, Pete Prisco scores 58.6% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 17.02, 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 #51 of 87 ranked NFL pundits on the MissedTakes leaderboard.
How accurate are NFL experts overall? →
Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below opens to its own arithmetic.
All 297 calls · one square per call
69hits34% of graded
91Close45%
43misses21%
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Teams and players where Pete Prisco 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 3 of 11 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Pete Prisco covers the NFL for CBS Sports and Sports Illustrated, with appearances on the Locked On Packers podcast. The predictions here touch teams across the league, from the Jaguars and Cowboys to the Lions and Packers, including weekly game picks, Super Bowl forecasts and power rankings.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
203 graded calls in 47 articles, newest first — page 1 of 6. Every take from Pete Prisco, 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.
94waitingnot 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 Pete Prisco would be #53; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #51.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Nick Wright | 18.09 | 58.97% | 403 |
| 50 | Pamela Maldonado | 17.59 | 44.58% | 40 |
| 51 | Pete Prisco | 17.02 | 58.6% | 203 |
| 52 | Ryan Wormeli | 16.27 | 68% | 31 |
| 53 | Eva Geitheim | 14.27 | 43.75% | 40 |
Outside the room in 3 of 11 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Outside the room in 2 of 10 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Outside the room in 2 of 9 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Outside the room in 2 of 13 articles — always higher · the strays aren’t settled yet
New York Giants 23 — Commanders 14
“Prisco's pick: Giants 23-14 over Commanders”
Closing line (Nov 12): Giants by 1.5, total 40.5 · this 23–14 calls a bigger Giants win (by 9) and fewer points (37).
New York Giants 23 — Commanders 14
“The Giants' defense has been dominant up front as of late, and that will continue here as they contain Jayden Daniels. Giants keep winning. Pick: Giants 23, Commanders 14”
Closing line (Nov 12): Giants by 1.5, total 40.5 · this 23–14 calls a bigger Giants win (by 9) and fewer points (37).
New York Giants 23 — Commanders 14
“Pick: Giants 23, Commanders 14”
Closing line (Nov 12): Giants by 1.5, total 40.5 · this 23–14 calls a bigger Giants win (by 9) and fewer points (37).
Buffalo Bills 21 — Vikings 14
“Prisco's pick: Bills 21-14 over Vikings”
Closing line (Nov 9): Bills by 3, total 45.5 · this 21–14 calls a bigger Bills win (by 7) and fewer points (35).
Buffalo Bills to beat Vikings
“Pete Prisco: Bills”
Closing line (Nov 9): Bills by 3 · favorite pick, Bills 62%.
Seattle Seahawks to beat Cardinals
“Pete Prisco: Seahawks”
Closing line (Nov 8): Seahawks by 8.5 · favorite pick, Seahawks about 4 in 5 (79%).