Every summer I make 100 bold predictions for the upcoming NFL season, and last year was a particularly fortuitous column. If you’re an avid reader, you would have had a front row seat to dozens—dozens!—of accurate prognostications, including the facts that there would be lingering issues from the Tom Brady roast, Jayden Daniels would win Offensive Rookie of the Year, the Patriots would avoid the No. 1 pick in the draft, the Sanders family would lord over NFL draft discussions, Cooper DeJean would become a folk hero in Philadelphia, the Texans wouldn’t improve upon their 10-win season from 2023, the rises of both Sam Darnold and Khalil Shakir, that Alvin Kamara would soar from the fantasy graveyard, that three different teams would lead the NFC South and that the 49ers, Cowboys and Dolphins would all miss their respective projected win totals.
