No more Wonderlic

[Basbear]

8 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

That's what this thread will end up doing.

Well at least for now you can find SATs scores, but a young mind charges tons in college. They are on the list as well. 

[BerryLoMein]

[Mr. Scot]

1 hour ago, PandaMan said:

I think TE was like #2 in the average Wonderlic score by position.  Maybe he’s truly playing big brain games this whole time… or he dragged them down to #2 from #1

I think MTV or somebody did a sketch a while back that portrayed Jessica Simpson as a super genius who just played dumb to fool people.

Also remember seeing an interview or something with Anna Nicole Smith that left me firmly convinced her dimwitted persona was all an act.

[LinvilleGorge]

1 hour ago, AU-panther said:

and did anyone take the time to really see if there was a correlation between the scores and sucess?

because if they didn't any opinion whether they were actually helpful or not is nothing more than a guess.

With as much money and resources that most NFL teams dedicate to the draft I'm sure some of the teams actually did, and the fact that the test stayed part of the combine for this long might indicate there was actually some sort of correlation that at least some of the teams appreciated, but that is just a guess.

 

There were three studies done that I'm aware of in '08, '09, and '11 and all three determined there was no correlation between wonderlic scores and NFL success.

[CPcavedweller]

One objective of the Social Justice change platform accomplished. 

[TheBigKat]

6 hours ago, jackson113 said:

Finally something you’ve posted that I agree with

[top dawg]

2 hours ago, AU-panther said:

unless you have access to every player any assumption about a correlation is nothing more than a guess

 

Perhaps, but being that the players' scores are all over the place, that may easily suggest that there is really no correlation and that ultimately the test means nothing.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

It's hard to judge imo simply because there are a ton of players who just don't try on it.....

 

 

Now Kelvin Benjamin's 7 that one was spot on.

[4Corners]

Let’s be real here: the wonderlic is an ethnocentric, culturally biased form of pseudoscience that creates an unfair metric of classism and using it to judge potential NFL players is probably racist. 
 

the prospects score has no correlation with success as an NFL player. It’s like one of the position coaches asking the player if he is gay during the interview process. Irrelevant and unethical. 

[kungfoodude]

8 hours ago, 4Corners said:

Which huddler would get the lowest wonderlic score? 

You'd be bottom five scores, no question.

[4Corners]

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

You'd be bottom five scores, no question.

I actually took it like 10 years ago for a job opportunity and got a 27 or 28 on it I believe. I’ve never been a good test taker and the test was timed. 

[4Corners]

5 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Speaking of intelligence...

I find this to be a pretty smart statement

Quinn is a former UNC football player who was kicked off the team. To my knowledge he has been completely disassociated with Carolina and Carolina athletics.   

[Icege]

Considering that scouts get the 4-1-1 on whether or not a player has learning difficulties and coaches get to grill a player's football knowledge during interviews, it makes sense to do away with it.

[Snake]

9 hours ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Didn't Ryan Fitzpatrick get a perfect score on that test?

I'm pretty sure he did but he also went to Harvard as well.