Take The Wonderlic Test
...posted by Anthony De Rosa...
The famous Wonderlic test, used to judge a player’s intelligence and ability to make quick decisions, has been a point of controversy for many players. Mario Manningham scored a 6, Eli Manning scored a 39. The average score, out of 50, is 21. Players have 12 minutes to complete it.
Take the test and see how you would score, and compare to other potential draft picks.
Here are some other scores for reference: Drew Bledsoe - 37, Steve Young - 33, John Elway - 30, Dan Marino - 16, Deltha O’Neal - 15, Donovan McNabb - 14
Hat tip to Ralph Vacchiano’s Daily News blog for the link.
I got a 35…but I will say this…I can see how a guy gets a six..if you are not good at math and have to do it on the fly…forget it…There is a lot of reasoning but I don’t know how we get an understanding of what type of football player he will be.
Great point. I got a 30 but I can see if your goal in life is to catch touchdowns or sack a QB you might have trouble with some of these. I don’t see the purpose of this in evaluating players. If it hurt Manningham’s value all the better for the Giants.
45 points. Was too lazy to figure out #10 and had no idea about #18.
So can the Giants draft me now? :D
But like people said, this seems like an odd test to rate players. I understand that the teams want to gauge reasoning skills, but at the end while the answers do matter, the more important part is how they went about trying to get the answer.
For example in question #2:
# Assume the first 2 statements are true. Is the final one:
The boy plays for the Tigers. All the players on the Tigers wear white sneakers. The boy wears white sneakers.
You could say 3: Not Certain. Reasoning, yes the boy is a tiger, but it doesn’t say that Tiger’s wear white sneakers all the time. Maybe the boy isn’t with the tigers currently, hence wearing a different type of shoe.
I think a player like a QB would need to score higher then say, a DE.
37.5
blew off 10 and 18 and finished it in 7 minutes.
similar to an IQ test.. how does this apply to running and out pattern and catching a ball?