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One of my favorite times of the year is when Wonderlic scores come out. I know the Wonderlic doesn't really mean anything in the long run (I know this personally because Alex Smith scored a 40 on his, and look how well he's done for my 49ers), but it's still fun to learn who is smart and who is a complete dumbass. And man, do we have plenty of both for you.

First up, Matt Stafford proved that he's definitely pretty smart. Stafford scored a 38 on the Wonderlic which obviously boosts his stock. USC's Mark Sanchez scored a 28 and Kansas State's Josh Freeman a 27, which is about average for QBs.

By the way, here are some other interesting QB scores from over the years.

Michael Vick - 20
Marcus Vick - 11
Steve Young - 33
Drew Brees - 28
Tom Brady - 33
Chad Pennington - 25 (Remember, Pennington was once a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Yikes.)
Drew Bledsoe - 37
Donovan McNabb - 14
David Garrard - 14
Dan Marino - 16
Eli Manning - 39
Jeff George - 10
Vince Young - allegedly got a 6, then retested and got a 15
Chris Leak - 8
John Elway - 30
Brett Favre - 22

But back to the 2009 class.

Also scoring well on the Wonderlic was Maryland cornerback Kevin Barnes, who scored a 41. I just wish that Rhodes Scholar winner Myron Rolle, who put the NFL on hold to go to Oxford next year, had taken the Wonderlic. He might pull a Kevin Curtis on it if he ever takes it (Curtis scored a 48). By the way, Pat McInally, a graduate of Harvard University who played wide receiver and punted for the Bengals, is the only football player to record a confirmed perfect score of 50.

Now let's get to the dumbasses. There are a lot more of those.

Seems the wide receiving corps is especially stupid this year. Michael Crabtree of Texas Tech scored a 15, Darrius Heyward-Bey of Maryland scored a 14, and Percy Harvin of Florida scored a 12. Not real good. But don't worry, there was someone who was worse. Hakeem Nicks of UNC wowed everyone with an 11. A score of 10 suggests a person is literate, so at least all of the receivers can read this, I hope.

By the way, Jeremy Maclin of Missouri scored a 25, so he's like the Einstein of this year's receiving corps.

A few other fools include linebacker Rey Maualuga, who scored a 15, and O-lineman Andre Smith, who continued his epic draft stock slide by posting a 17.

Here are a few other scores for some of 2009's top prospects.

Arizona's Eben Britton - 31
Virginia's Eugene Monroe - 24
Baylor's Jason Smith - 23
Ole Miss's Michael Oher - 19
USC's Clay Matthews - 27
USC's Brian Cushing - 23
Michigan's Louis Delmas - 12

The lowest score we know of remains Nicks, but so far it seems only Wonderlic scores for top prospects are out. I'm sure someone scored below a 10 this year. By the way, in case you were wondering, the lowest score ever on the Wonderlic came courtesy of Darren Davis, a running back from Iowa State who scored a 4.

If we find out about any players who are illiterate from this year's draft class, we'll be sure to let you know.

Georgia's Matthew Stafford stands out with Wonderlic score. [Chicago Tribune]
NFL Quarterback Wonderlic scores [Mac Mirabile]
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3/22/09
12
I is supa smrt 2!

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3/22/09
0
Only in America can someone score a six and get paid millions...

Ahh capitalism...

3/22/09
3
Hakeem Nicks may be an idiot, but he sure can catch. 

3/22/09
1
Delmas is from my old stomping grounds...Western Michigan...not my enemy Michigan...

3/22/09
12
I is supa smrt 2!

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3/22/09
0
What kind of questions do they ask them? Maybe there should be a minimum to get into the NFL.

3/22/09
0
Tiger_Pride2 wrote:
What kind of questions do they ask them? Maybe there should be a minimum to get into the NFL.
Here you go, just click the link: Wonderlic test questions.

3/22/09
1
Luckily for most of these guys, the Wonderlic doesn't translate directly to NFL playing ability.  But it is a huge factor in the ability to read, understand, and memorize the eccentric playbooks that every NFL team certainly has.  It makes one wonder what exactly these players are doing in the mandatory 3 years in college (or junior college) before they can go pro.

3/22/09
0
100%InjuryRate wrote:
Here you go, just click the link: Wonderlic test questions.
That test is ridiculously easy!!  I bet the only reason people score so low is because they get bored of the test and screw up on purpose or just start randomly answering the questions.  Any GM that takes that test seriously deserves a score of less than 10!!

3/22/09
0
lol What a silly test. I can actually see why some would do horrible but if your an adult you should be able to pass that.

3/22/09
0
that was pretty easy, i got 14/15

3/22/09
3
I really wish there was a Wonderlic in the NBA.. Could you imagine? Kenyon Martin, Stephen Jackson, Ron Artest...etc...I dont know if the scores would break double digits

3/22/09
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Michael_Luchies wrote:
I really wish there was a Wonderlic in the NBA.. Could you imagine? Kenyon Martin, Stephen Jackson, Ron Artest...etc...I dont know if the scores would break double digits
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.  If 10 was the breakpoint for pass/fail, I don't think 10% of the guys would pass.

3/22/09
0
Darren Davis a Future Cleveland Brown

3/22/09
0
who knows what chris leak would have gotten if he asnwered all the questions.  for one reason or another he decided only to answer the first 12 of the 50 question test.

3/22/09
3
Raider_Dave wrote:
I is supa smrt 2!

http://cache.deadspin.com/sports/vinceyoungyarrr.jpg
I am so smart...S-M-R-T I mean S-M-A-R-T!
SMRT

3/22/09
0
Raider_Dave wrote:
Luckily for most of these guys, the Wonderlic doesn't translate directly to NFL playing ability.  But it is a huge factor in the ability to read, understand, and memorize the eccentric playbooks that every NFL team certainly has.  It makes one wonder what exactly these players are doing in the mandatory 3 years in college (or junior college) before they can go pro.
It may provide a small window into a players ability to understand the playbook..... but it can't be a universal barometer for every player.  Especially at a position where instincts are a big part of the players on-field ability.  For instance the front 7 on defence, backside OT's, WR's and RB's..... it probably doesn't matter at all to NFL teams that Ray Maualuga and Micheal Crabtree scored a 15 because on film these guys dominate!!

3/22/09
1
It's "receiving corps," not "core."  You got it right the second time around, but I loved the wrong word used in a sentence about others' supposed stupidity.  Well done.

3/22/09
3
Raider_Dave wrote:
I is supa smrt 2!

http://cache.deadspin.com/sports/vinceyoungyarrr.jpg
To be fair Dave, his Wonderlic score only told us he was stupid. It never told us that he sucked. I don't think we were ready for that.

3/22/09
3
I wonder how the athletes that scored so low were able to pass their classes in school in order to play in games??  hhmmm....makes you wonder??

3/22/09
0
So for the guys who skip questions because they were bored.... does not mean they are stupid because they got a low score. It just means they are lazy, which is obviously better to be a lazy NFL player than a stupid NFL player.

3/22/09
0
12/15.

3/23/09
1
I'd say those questions are about grade 10 level. So getting a 10-15 on the test means that you are a poor high school student as opposed to being a college graduate. One would have to conclude that college football players have taken so many hits to the head that they have forgotten most of what they learned in high school! That assumes they learned anything in high school, which of course is not a requirement for D1 football players.

Some have suggested the players were bored or lazy while answering the questions. Now that's exactly the person I'd like to be paying millions to study my playbook.

Having said all that, I would have to conclude that there is some level of innate non-verbal, non- mathematical intelligence required of athletic performance that these tests simply don't measure. In a moment of frankness, Larry Bird once said that, were he not playing in the NBA, he'd be riding a garbage truck in southern Indiana. And this is clearly a guy with a PhD in basketball.

3/23/09
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WhoDat12 wrote:
To be fair Dave, his Wonderlic score only told us he was stupid. It never told us that he sucked. I don't think we were ready for that.
I don't think the Titans were either...And good thing the Texans drafted Mario Williams!

3/23/09
2
Raider_Dave wrote:
I is supa smrt 2!

http://cache.deadspin.com/sports/vinceyoungyarrr.jpg
I AM SOFA KING RE TODD EDD!



3/23/09
1
There should obviously be a 20 minimum to play QB...
and no one that played in Austin  under Mack Brown should ever be drafted in the 1st round
Historical fact

3/23/09
1
Who wants a player with a measurable attention span anyway?

3/23/09
2
Derrich wrote:
Who wants a player with a measurable attention span anyway?
sorry, wait, what did you say, i wasn't paying attention.

3/23/09
0
These guys went to college right? And scored a 12? *facepalm*

3/23/09
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3/23/09
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jacobmrley wrote:
sorry, wait, what did you say, i wasn't paying attention.
I'm an Aries.

 
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