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Shannon Sharpe played tight end in the NFL for 14 seasons, winning three Super Bowls across stints with the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens before retiring as the league leader in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns at the position. The Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted Sharpe in 2011. After years as a television analyst on CBS Sports and Fox Sports 1, Sharpe moved into podcasting with Club Shay Shay and Nightcap. The predictions here come from Nightcap, where Sharpe covers game outcomes, player movement, awards, and stat projections for teams including the Broncos, Ravens, Steelers, Browns, Bills, and Packers, with calls on players such as Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, Myles Garrett, and Micah Parsons.
Across 33 graded calls in 21 articles, Shannon Sharpe scores 65.2% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 20.84, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims.
That is a limited sample, under thirty graded articles, so treat it with caution. That ranks #42 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 64 calls · one square per call
18hits55% of graded
15misses45%
31waitingnot graded yet
How much better than a naive guess on the same claims. This is the ranking.
Shannon Sharpe played tight end in the NFL for 14 seasons, winning three Super Bowls across stints with the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens before retiring as the league leader in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns at the position. The Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted Sharpe in 2011. After years as a television analyst on CBS Sports and Fox Sports 1, Sharpe moved into podcasting with Club Shay Shay and Nightcap. The predictions here come from Nightcap, where Sharpe covers game outcomes, player movement, awards, and stat projections for teams including the Broncos, Ravens, Steelers, Browns, Bills, and Packers, with calls on players such as Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry, Myles Garrett, and Micah Parsons.
A longer profile is written once a record reaches 30 graded articles, and published only after a person reviews it.
33 graded calls in 21 articles, newest first — page 1 of 2. Every take from Shannon Sharpe, 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.
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 Shannon Sharpe would be #35; the Score measures the lift over a naive guess on the same calls, and that puts this record at #42.
| # | Pundit | Score | Accuracy | Graded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | JP Acosta | 21.48 | 59.01% | 142 |
| 41 | Marcus Mosher | 21.16 | 81.66% | 77 |
| 42 | Shannon Sharpe | 20.84 | 65.2% | 33 |
| 43 | Richard Sherman | 20.81 | 57.66% | 213 |
| 44 | Bobby Kownack | 19.38 | 46.43% | 39 |
Dallas Cowboys to beat Tampa
“Next week, y'all beat Tampa.”
Houston Texans to beat Cowboys
“We get to Texas this week. Okay, y'all going to lose this week.”
Closing line (Oct 4): Texans by 3 · favorite pick, Texans 58%.
Green Bay Packers to beat Cowboys
“I think Green Bay going to spring. Oh, that's a Sunday night game. Oh, Green Bay got y'all.”
Denver Broncos to beat Kansas City
“I got the Broncos. They game, too... It ain't going to beat that defense the Broncos got.”
Closing line (Sep 14): Chiefs by 2.5 · underdog pick, Broncos 46%.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers to beat Bengals
“You worry about your team getting beat by Tampa at home.”
Closing line (Sep 13): Bengals by 3.5 · underdog pick, Buccaneers about 1 in 3 (36%).
Fernando Mendoza to be drafted ahead of Jeremiah Smith
“I don't think he ain't going number one overall. He ain't going in front of Mendoza.”
Jalen Milroe to make the roster
“I think Seattle a definitely keeping Melrow.”
Stefon Diggs to move
“Is he gonna get picked up? ... Yeah? I think you're gonna get picked up.”
A.J. Brown to move to New England Patriots
“Now, we believe that come June first, A J. Brown is gonna be playing in New England.”
Tetairoa McMillan to win Offensive Rookie of the Year
“I think mc millan's gonna get it, I really do... I think McMillan's gonna win it Rookie of the Year.”
Tyler Shough to be 1st on the depth chart
“since he's come back, he is not relinquished that starting spot. / Is not going to relinquish it.”
Matthew Stafford to win MVP
“Yeah, he's gonna win the m v P.”
“I think Gonzale, I think PS two, and I think uh Stingley Jr. I think those are the top three corners in my book”