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Vince Young scores 6 on Wonderlic test
It has been confirmed that Texas quarterback Vince Young scored a measly six on the Wonderlic test, administered annually to the potential members of the draft class at the scouting combine.
A six! That's bad. It's beyond bad.
All incoming NFL players take a 50-question version of the Wonderlic, with a 12-minute window within which to finish it.
We found 15 sample Wonderlic questions on ESPN.com's page 2, including such brain-benders as selecting the ninth month of the year from among five possible choices. We'd like to think that most people of average intelligence could get at least six of the 15 sample questions right.
Getting a total of only six out of a total of 50 questions of that same kind is pathetic. For a guy who's going to be called upon to read defenses and call audibles and work through a progression of receivers against NFL-caliber opposition, it's downright scary.
Said one league insider, "It's also the number of the round he'll be drafted in."
There's a significant buzz in Indy regarding the ridiculously low marks. Though there might not be that much of a correlation between book smarts and football ability, out of all positions, quarterback is the one that requires at least some basic cognitive ability.
Unless, of course, the offense consists of making one read and then pulling the ball down and running -- which is the very approach the team that drafts Young might have to employ.
Though the suggestion that Young will last until round six is an exaggeration, the thinking is that he lost millions of dollars via his poor performance on the test, and that it's now a virtual certainty that Vanderbilt quarterback Jay Cutler will pass him in round one.
Source: profootballtalk.com
A six! That's bad. It's beyond bad.
All incoming NFL players take a 50-question version of the Wonderlic, with a 12-minute window within which to finish it.
We found 15 sample Wonderlic questions on ESPN.com's page 2, including such brain-benders as selecting the ninth month of the year from among five possible choices. We'd like to think that most people of average intelligence could get at least six of the 15 sample questions right.
Getting a total of only six out of a total of 50 questions of that same kind is pathetic. For a guy who's going to be called upon to read defenses and call audibles and work through a progression of receivers against NFL-caliber opposition, it's downright scary.
Said one league insider, "It's also the number of the round he'll be drafted in."
There's a significant buzz in Indy regarding the ridiculously low marks. Though there might not be that much of a correlation between book smarts and football ability, out of all positions, quarterback is the one that requires at least some basic cognitive ability.
Unless, of course, the offense consists of making one read and then pulling the ball down and running -- which is the very approach the team that drafts Young might have to employ.
Though the suggestion that Young will last until round six is an exaggeration, the thinking is that he lost millions of dollars via his poor performance on the test, and that it's now a virtual certainty that Vanderbilt quarterback Jay Cutler will pass him in round one.
Source: profootballtalk.com