Vince Young Possibly Scored SIX on The Wonderlic
That’s right – the savior of Texas Football may not have managed his jersey number. Even Forrest Gump could’ve pooped out a Jeff Georgian 10 if that Army recruiter hadn’t snagged him for Vietnam first. For the uninformed, the Wonderlic is a 12-minute, 50-question test that is written at a 6th grade reading level and is used by many corporations, as well as the NFL, as a makeshift IQ test. The average score for incoming NFL rookies is 19 (1 in 100,000 get a perfect 50), and if these rumors are correct, Vince Young has the lowest recorded score for a quarterback of all time… what about Terry Bradshaw, you ask? Sorry, the NFL has only been using the Wonderlic for 25 years.
Anyone who follows recruiting knows that Young didn’t score much higher than dullard when he left high school but in the fall of 2002, he managed to be named to UT’s Athletics Director’s Academic Honor Roll. I’m now getting the feeling that UT’s definition of "Academic" differs a bit from the accepted meaning… either that, or the FBI needs to head down to Austin for an investigation into their academic integrity – this is a government caliber cover-up and we all know we can’t trust the NCAA to have the stones to figure it out.
But still assuming he really did score a six, how will he handle the complexities of an NFL playbook? At UT, the playbook had one page and it looked like this:
1. Hike to Vince
2. Wait to see what Vince does
3. React
And while that type of playbook might work for the Falcons, it’s not quite the NFL way. So what late first round team will splash millions on Young and the guy that took all his tests and wrote all of his papers? What, you don’t think that guy needs to be on the payroll? Without him, Young has project written all over him. He throws like Uncle Rico and must adjust to playing UNDER center instead of 5 yards behind it. They’d better draft his illegal test taker in the following round so the guy can convert the playbook into into paint-by-numbers pictures. Otherwise, it won’t be three years before Young will need to petition Michael Huff for a job at his new IHOP.
If you’d like to see what Vince and the boys were up against, ESPN has 15 sample Wonderlic questions for your egotistical enjoyment. Good luck.
*This story is running on the Rumor Mill at ProFootballTalk.com, so take it for what it’s worth.*
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Hahah! God I hope this is true. If so, it’s no longer surprising that Mack Brown just stopped coaching this year and let the guy do what he wanted. He probably didn’t understand the scripted plays.
lol nice, I heard Huff already has a line on a possible location for that new ihop too.
shit Flash even without the results for this test, Youngs got project written all over him. If he falls behind Leinart and Cutler (more than possible), his last first round hope is the Dolphins at #16 and I don’t think they have the luxury of giving him a year to take remedial classes on the game.
Maybe some NFL guys here can confirm but I thought they gave you one point just for putting your name on the test.
haha Isn’t it Seneca Wallace who got a 12 and STILL can’t figure out anything going on in the Seahawks playbook? Good luck Vince!
jesus christ maybe the Niners can take him and he and Frank Gore can bunk together at training camp. with a lot of hard work and studying, they might be able to join forces and score a 14.
If you go to the combine and only come away from it with the official title of dumbest guy there, you’d better fire your agent and have new representation IMMEDIATELY. no way should he not have been prepared for it. shit the least the agent coulda done was give him that ESPN link and have him give those a test run! I got a 14 on the samples though… damn.
I also got a 14 on the sample but I think it took me 4 minutes to find some paper to do the math problem.
“what about Terry Bradshaw, you say? Sorry, the NFL has only been using the Wonderlic for 25 years.”
hahaha ouch
I was about to argue that even though he got a 6, Marino (14) and Culpepper (15) got shitty scores, so maybe performance on the Wonderlic doesn’t always translate to performance on the field. But then I remembered that this is a QB we’re talking about and Marino is the exception to the rule (Culpepper would be nothing w/o Moss). Young isn’t some braindead RB that just has to hit the holes and run (no offense JJ). He’s gotta be the smartest guy on the field and a 6… Jesus. Is there any way for his camp to spin their way out of this?
all they could really say is that he wasn’t trying but that makes him look even worse. the only way they can spin their way out of this is if the rumor is WAY off and they actually meant 26, not 6.
I think it’s a little early to assume he’s gonna fall out of the top ten because of this test (if the score is even right). Why wouldn’t the Cardinals pick him up with the 10th pick? They’ve got old ass Warner signed to another contract, they have McCown. They have plenty of time to keep the seat warm while Young takes the remedials on how the big boys play football.
Nah he could be out of the top 10 Koester. The wonderlic is serious business for quarterbacks and if this 6 is for real, he’s about to lose millions.
The Cards re-signed Warner? Is it a 1 year deal?
of course they resigned warner. Brenda Warner probably threatened to have God smite the FO or something if they didn’t.