NFL · 2026 season

NFL expert picks, tracked and graded

Experts at CBS Sports, ESPN, NFL.com and 6 other outlets publish picks every week. We record each pick, before kick-off when we can, grade it against the final score and keep a running record for every expert. We don't make picks of our own.

Experts tracked: 56
Outlets: 9
Picks graded: 3,453
Games graded: 78

This week

NFL Week 5 expert picks

Oct 8–12, 2026 · 15 games · picks recorded for 15 of 15 games

BUFLAR Bills at RamsMon, Oct 12, 8:15 p.m. ET · 24 of 46 experts pick the Bills

All 15 Week 5 games

Season leaders so far

Straight up: Tyler Sullivan (CBS Sports) at 51-26-1. Against the spread: Jamey Eisenberg (CBS Sports) at 46-30-2.

Records this close are hard to tell apart: after about 78 picks, the 95% range around each win rate is roughly 21 points wide. Experts with fewer than 30 decided picks are listed but not ranked.

Full leaderboard · Against the spread

Week 4 results

The side most experts picked won 9 of 16 decided games straight up.
Top straight-up record of the week: Kalyn Kahler (ESPN), 13-3-0.
All picks straight up together: 230-137-0 (62.7%).
All picks against the spread together: 74-106-12 (41.1%).

Every Week 4 pick and result

Picks from before Oct 12, 2026, when we started, were read from the outlets' pages after the games and are labeled that way everywhere. Tallysight, which some team sites use, stamps the time of each pick, so those picks carry their own label. From Oct 12 on, we record picks before kick-off. How we record picks

Outlets we track

CBS Sports NFL picks
7 experts. All picks combined: straight up 335-204-7; against the spread 252-280-14.
ESPN NFL picks
11 experts. All picks combined: straight up 513-332-11.
NFL.com NFL picks
5 experts. All picks combined: straight up 223-162-5; against the spread 173-212-5.
Daily Norseman NFL picks
6 experts. All picks combined: straight up 47-31-6; against the spread 41-43-0; on totals 42-41-0.
Pride of Detroit NFL picks
8 experts. All picks combined: straight up 53-39-7; against the spread 45-40-0; on totals 17-12-0.
SB Nation NFL picks
9 experts. All picks combined: straight up 73-44-9.
Sports Illustrated NFL picks
8 experts. All picks combined: straight up 55-49-8.
ProFootballTalk NFL picks
1 expert. All picks combined: straight up 8-5-1.
FOX Sports NFL picks
1 expert. All picks combined: against the spread 5-2-0; on totals 1-1-0.

Expert picks by team

AFC East

AFC North

AFC South

AFC West

NFC East

NFC North

NFC South

NFC West

How we work

We record. We read each outlet's public picks page several times a day and save a copy with a fingerprint, so every pick can be traced.
We grade. Every pick is graded against the final score, including overtime, by the same rules for everyone. Methodology
We show the count. Every record comes with its sample size and a 95% range, and every pick carries a label that says how we got it. Editorial standards