Hearing those words can make an NFL draft prospect shudder. The NFL Scouting Combine, which takes place this week in Indianapolis, has mental and psychological components that accompany the physical.
IQ testing is controversial, many experts agree. And there's no exception regarding using such testing in professional sports, where the Wonderlic has reigned supreme for decades. So, what is this ...
Are you smarter than an NFL quarterback? Wonderlic test scores have recently leaked during the NFL combine with top quarterback prospect Carson Wentz receiving respectable marks on the exam. Wentz, a ...
Johnny Manziel is more intelligent than Blake Bortles and Teddy Bridgewater. OK, that might not entirely be true. There's no perfect way to measure one's intelligence, as our yearly fretting about and ...
The Wonderlic test was conceived in 1936 to measure a person's general cognitive ability in the areas of vocabulary, reasoning, and math skills. It was first implemented in the NFL by Dallas Cowboys ...
The NFL will implement a new, expanded player-assessment test designed to provide a comprehensive look at a player's "non-physical capabilities, aptitudes and strengths," according to an NFL memo ...
Analyzing potential NFL draft prospects is always an inexact science as teams and NFL fans as a whole try to equate both collegiate performance and a player's measurable skills to what a player can do ...
IRVING - I first started writing about the NFL's use of the Wonderlic Test on draft-eligible prospects in the early '90's, at a time when some thought it was a mad-scientist-level effort in overkill.
Bill Belichick, shown as newly minted coach of the Cleveland Browns in 1991, made it into three questions in DMan's Wonderlic Test sample, 2017 edition. (Richard T. Conway/The Plain Dealer) CLEVELAND, ...