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Ralph Vacchiano covers the NFL for Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated, writing power rankings, depth-chart analysis and season outlooks across the league. His work touches teams from the Giants and Jets to the Bills and Ravens, with a clear eye for quarterback situations and roster moves.
Writes at Sports Illustrated
Every take from Ralph Vacchiano, including the ones still waiting →
Is Ralph Vacchiano accurate? Across 2 graded calls in 2 articles, Ralph Vacchiano scores 33.49% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 0.71, 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.
Fewer than 10 graded articles. Treat this as provisional.
93.45% 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.
Teams and players where Ralph Vacchiano 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. Computed, never chosen.
Outside the room in 2 of 4 articles — always lower · the strays aren’t settled yet
Outside the room in 2 of 4 articles — always lower · when they strayed: 67.0 accuracy (1 settled)
Tua Tagovailoa to be 1st on the depth chart
“Tua got the Week 1 nod”
“This says the twenty twenty five NFL Power Rankings, according to NFL. On Fox... One of their lead NFL guys, Ralph Facciano. He compiled this... Broncos at sixteen, Bears at seventeen, Niners at eighteen... nineteen Cowboys, twenty, Jags, Seahawks, twenty one, Patriots, Raiders, Dolphins, Falcons, Giants, Jets, Panthers, Cults, Titans, Saints, and Browns in last place at thirty two.”