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Tavon Austin Wonderlic score: 7

Kevin Greene

By Kevin Greene,
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panthers55 Grand Master

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A wonderlic score really measures your ability to think abstractly and reason sequentially. It also measures your speed of mental processing. It is related to some forms of intelligence but is surely not the only measure. I think that the chalkboard work they do with receivers as well as talking to his other coaches about how well he picked up plays and new concepts is a more valid measure of his football acumen. Should it be considered? Yes. Should it be a determining factor? Not really.

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when you have test anxiety or just don't test well, it doesn't matter how much you study for something, you're probably not going to do well. the more pressure put on that one test and having it be a timed test makes it worse.

fortunately the league as a whole doesn't put a whole lot of emphasis on this one test. i think people on the outside make more of it than the league does. if some teams/gms make it a big deal, their loss.

and i don't think it drops him at all. a team won't decide whether or not to take austin or patterson based on that silly thing. if they had any concerns whatsoever and any real interest in him, they would have brought him in for a visit, like we did...but deciding to take him at any spot? nah. unless they were nitpicking in the way they might in considering his vert or wingspan or something it's just not something that they are going to knock a guy on.

Obviously nobody's dropping him off of their board based on one test. But when you're comparing players, intelligence has a small part in the rankings. It's not dropping him a lot, and the score is combined with the impression that the player gives off during his meetings, but it matters some. Too many people are saying it doesn't matter at all. That's not true. Remember all the glowing stories about Kuechly and his intelligence?

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Obviously nobody's dropping him off of their board based on one test. But when you're comparing players, intelligence has a small part in the rankings. It's not dropping him a lot, and the score is combined with the impression that the player gives off during his meetings, but it matters some. Too many people are saying it doesn't matter at all. That's not true. Remember all the glowing stories about Kuechly and his intelligence?

his football IQ.

and i don't think a test likened to the SAT has any bearing on a football player being able to do his job. i don't think it has much to do with intelligence. might he be dumb as a brick? maybe, but that test isn't something that should be taken too seriously in gauging that. it is not a good indicator of who can pick up a playbook and understand it. it doesn't show an ability to learn and comprehend what he needs to do as a player.

it does very little but show who can take an irelevant test well and who can't.

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posted this in another thread...

hakeem nicks-12

percy harvin-12

cj spiller-10

frank gore- 6

julio jones-15

adrian peterson-16

morris claiborne-4

chris johnson-10

donovan mcnabb-14

ray lewis-13

dan marino-15

and i'm not going to go through and list all the guys that aced the wonderlic who sucked. i will say that gabbert scored a 42, tho. and ryan leaf scored only one point lower than peyton manning (27 vs. 28).

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posted this in another thread...

hakeem nicks-12

percy harvin-12

cj spiller-10

frank gore- 6

julio jones-15

adrian peterson-16

morris claiborne-4

chris johnson-10

donovan mcnabb-14

ray lewis-13

dan marino-15

and i'm not going to go through and list all the guys that aced the wonderlic who sucked. i will say that gabbert scored a 42, tho. and ryan leaf scored only one point lower than peyton manning (27 vs. 28).

Yeah, and I bet most of the guys knocking Austin for his score, would jizzed if we could take MoClay right now. It all boils down to his size, not his intellect.

IDC if all he could say is 'me cach fooball, me run faz, me sorez tuchdownz' as long as he does just that.

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