The wonder of the Wonderlic
The NFL held its combine last weekend, and I didn’t watch. I’ve admitted before I’m not as nutty about the draft as some people, and though I read a few articles on the combine (by the way, Darren McFadden is not slow), I didn’t watch on the NFL Network.
The one thing that’s always intrigued me about the testing of NFL prospects is the testing of their brains, via the Wonderlic Personnel Test. I found this site that gives the scores of every NFL quarterback prospect that took the test, and it’s alarming to see that Heath Shuler scored a 16 and is now in Congress. Jeff George scored a 10, which seems about right. Tony Romo scored a 37, think he’d date someone smarter than Jessica Simpson? Tom Brady got a 33, but would have done better if Randy Moss wide right in the testing room
I tried looking for other position scores but didn’t find much. I think because quarterback is supposedly the most cerebral position in the game, their scores are analyzed that much more. And though it’s fun to take mock tests and joke about players’ scores, I wonder what it really means — after all, Alex Smith scored a 40 yet still throws the ball to the other team at an unintelligent rate.
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February 27th, 2008 at 3:28 am
[...] Da NFL Blog - Fantasy football advice and NFL musings that would make Coach Ditka proud wrote an interesting post today on The wonder of the WonderlicHere’s a quick excerptThe wonder of the Wonderlic The NFL held its combine last weekend, and I didn’t watch. I’ve admitted before I’m not as nutty about the draft as some people, and though I read a few articles on the combine (by the way, Darren McFadden is not slow), I didn’t watch on the NFL Network. The one thing that’s always intrigued me about the testing of NFL prospects is the testing of their brains, via the Wonderlic Personnel Test. I found this site that gives the scores of every NFL quarterback prospec [...]
February 27th, 2008 at 3:49 am
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