As the NFL Draft approaches, every amount of information—no matter how small—seems to carry more weight than ever for the players who hope to be among the men selected.
Now, NFL scouts, coaches and front office personnel have more information on college football players than ever before. So when the NFL gets to count the Wonderlic as a part of a player's draft profile, this data can almost seem like too much—overkill.
This also means that only the outliers get identified more often than not. Using the Wonderlic as an example, there’s a focus placed on those who score the highest, those who score the lowest and rarely on the players who finish toward the median.
This is doubly true when discussing quarterbacks because quarterback is often viewed as the most important position and the position demanding the most critical thinking by any player on a football field (which is still subject to debate).
However, the Wonderlic was introduced in 1936 by E.F. Wonderlic as a means to help identify people with keen cognitive abilities using questions in the area of math, vocabulary and reasoning. Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry first used the test in the NFL to help identify more capable football players after the United States Armed Forces used the test during World War II to select fighter pilots.
The test was folded into the NFL’s pre-draft process as the NFL Scouting Combine became larger piece of the league’s offseason focus in the 1980s.
The test is commonly referred to because the evaluation is easy to administer and meant to be completed in 12 minutes or fewer, though Wonderlic himself said that only the top five percent of most groups tested could finish the 50-question test in that timespan. It's been used by companies ranging in interest from AT&T to Oscar Meyer to the NFL.
Still, many find the news shocking that highly-touted quarterbacks like former Alabama signal callers Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts would finish right around the average score of 20. Tagovailoa scored 19, and Hurts scored 21, according to reports.
Among quarterbacks, SI reported the average score has been about 24. But Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterbacks Terry Bradshaw (16), Dan Marino (15) and Jim Kelly (15) didn’t score highly on the test. Neither did Randall Cunningham, Donovan McNabb, Steve McNair or Daunte Culpepper.
And even quarterbacks with above average scores and top five percent scores aren’t exactly shoo-ins for even starting jobs.
Marcus Mariota scored the same has Tom Brady (33), and he’s backing up Derek Carr in Las Vegas. Peyton Manning (28) scored 20 points lower than Greg McElroy and Ryan Fitzpatrick (48), and Brett Favre (22) scored 10 points below Johnny Manziel (32).
But it’s comforting to know the NFL doesn’t care about Wonderlic test scores the way the public does. Morris Claiborne has the lowest score on record (4), and he was the sixth player selected in the 2012 NFL Draft.
Which proves the point: If you can play, that’s almost all that matters.
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