Rumor-Vince Young scores 6 on Wonderlic Test

[Southpaw]

Frank Gore scored a 5 last year....

as a learning disabled dyslexic he could have been excused from the test, but took it anyway and was a 3rd rounder.

 

[Southpaw]

YOUNG TESTS POORLY

The stunning news of the day from the combine revolved around Texas quarterback and Rose Bowl hero Vince Young.

Young, who led the Longhorns to the national championship with a great performance against USC, scored only a 6 on the Wonderlich aptitude examination. The 50-question, 12-minute exam has a maximum score of 50 points. Although several players usually score in single-digits each year, it is highly unusual for quarterbacks to score that low.

Several NFL team executives confirmed Young's score, which could hurt his draft status.

Maybe if Young falls to #10 Cards will grab him and convert him to a WR. This guy just got another question mark stuck on him. How many question marks will it take for people to get off the " greatest College Bowl game " ever bandwagon?

If anyone saw his performance in the College Skills event, they would have puked. He really doesn't look like he cares about anything except the crowd attention.

I am with Shane on this one. Vince Young has disaster written all over himself.

Vince Einstein

 

[Southpaw]

The Wizard of Odds reports... Things do not appear to be going well at the NFL combine for former Texas quarterback Vince Young, once thought to be the top pick of the draft, has seen his stock tumble to where one scouting service ranks him as no better than the sixth-best quarterback in the draft. Now comes a report that Young scored 6 on the Wonderlic personnel test, which is given to all prospects at the combine. To put this in perspective, only one person in 100,000 scores a perfect 50. Harvard's Pat McInally (1975) is the only prospect to ace the test at the combine. The average score for a player at the combine is 19. The average score overall — hundreds of corporations use the Wonderlic — is 21. But a score under 10 is an indication of literacy problems. Former Iowa State running back Darren Davis reportedly has the record for lowest score, a 4. Former Florida State kicker Sebastian Janikowski reportedly got a 9. If Young did do this poorly, it will be another knock on him.

 

[seesred]

The only real test is the one on the field of battle. Now I didn't see to many games with Young , but he sure was great in his last two games. The test isn't a true indicater of a persons ability. I've seen many a college genus get beat out by High school greds because that had a better ability to grasp trhe job requirments. If Young falls to ten and I don't think he will, he will be very hard for Green to pass on.

GBR
40

 

[JeffGollin]

From KFFL

Sunday, Feb. 26, the Combine said the test score of six that was being reported by some media outlets was false. Young took the test again and scored 16.
Hmmm. They say the test score info was false. Then they say he "retook" the test. If only the info was mis-reported, why did he have to retake the test?"

The issue becomes all moot anyway. The important thing is that he moved out of "She's With Stupid" territory; though not exactly into "Einstein Country" either.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Let him drop to 10. Even if he fails, he has the ability to bring in fans that may not have been Cards fans before.

 

[phillycard]

But the Cards have a HISTORY of key players getting injured. They sign a solid Center in Gruttadoria and the guy spends most of his time in Arizona at the Doctors office. Knee injuries are as common as cactus. Bertrand Berry our best FA signing in years misses half of last season. When even the Q can't play 16 games a season you know it is NOT just the normal run of injuries but the continuation of a 50+ year old jinx.

So what you're saying Duckjake is we should not sign anyone ever because we have a history of people getting hurt?? Ef a jinx, it's time for this team to stop thinking like a sorry team, and act like one that wants to win in the next decade or so.

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

16 is waaaaaaaaay too low for a QB. Most score around 30. I'd be reluctant to take a guy with a score that low.

Some Wonderlic scores...

McNabb - 12
Culpepper - 15
Marino - 12

Combined Pro Bowls - 17

 

[Southpaw]

Some Wonderlic scores...

McNabb - 12
Culpepper - 15
Marino - 12

Combined Pro Bowls - 17

Number of Super Bowl wins

Zero​

 

[D-Dogg]

Number of Super Bowl wins

Zero​

That's a bit much to ask.

I still don't like VY.

 

[Matt L]

number of winning seasons:

more than all seasons that the cardinals have been in arizona!

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Number of Super Bowl wins

Zero​

That's a dumb argument. The better your QB play, the better your odds are of winning a Super Bowl.

 

[Ryanwb]

Is it true that you get 10 points just for "bubbling" in your name correctly on the answer sheet??

 

[conraddobler]

It could be he can't read.

I'd hope that's the answer, otherwise he's about as dumb as you can possibly be and still walk around.

I'm sure we'll end up with him now.

Take it to the bank, he's going to slide right on down to us and we are going to meet him at the airport.... He might be at the wrong airport but when we do find him, he'll be ours.

 

[Southpaw]

That's a dumb argument. The better your QB play, the better your odds are of winning a Super Bowl.

Then you are calling your own argument dumb. You equated Pro Bowl appearances to Wunderlich under performance.

 

[Ryanwb]

I guess I can imagine what the 2006 Arizona Cardinals playbook will look like:

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seriously how can Texas University be proud they are graduating this guy?

 

[Shane]

I guess I can imagine what the 2006 Arizona Cardinals playbook will look like:

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seriously how can Texas University be proud they are graduating this guy?

 

[john h]

If true,

The score doesnt tell me he is stupid, it tells me he didnt even try. Which I think is even more damning.

Are you sure about that. If 6 is correct it says a lot more than that. A QB needs to understand a lot of plays and recognize a lot of schemes in the NFL. On guy in the history of the NFL got a perfect score. I think he was either from Princeton or Harvard. My guess was and still is Young will drop and this was before any scores on his test have been guessed at. I hope it was not a 6 as I wish a 6 upon no one. You often wonder how some of these guys stayed in college. One very good player in the NFL came into the league not being able to read or write after 4 years of college. How can that happen?

 

[john h]

You can't score a six on a wonderlic test. Its just not possible, unless he purposely meant to score a six.

Even if he guessed randomly on the 50 questions odds are he should atleast score a 10 just by using deductive reasoning.

This is bad for Texas University
You can't be in college and score a six on a wonderlic test., unless he got a free ride.

I think he will retake the test again.

There have been guys come into the NFl who could not read or write and were in college.

 

[john h]

As mentioned in this thread, he either did it on purpose or wasn't trying. There is simply no way you score a six.

Why on earth would a guy try to score a 6 when millions of dollars are at issue?

 

[john h]

Frankly I dont care if he scores a -6.

Still gonna be a great one.

Rumor is Reggie Bush scored an 11 on his.....does that make him any less the player he is? I dont think so


By the way this is great news! If all these other team let him drop to 10 what a windfall!

If he did score a 6 and we draft him as a QB then I think our draft pickers would also score a 6. We are already considered sort of dumb as an organization. Let us not compound it by being dumber.

 

[john h]

Maybe he doesn't take tests well, at least that worked for me at ASU.

The Shark

Or maybe he cannot read?

 

[Duckjake]

So what you're saying Duckjake is we should not sign anyone ever because we have a history of people getting hurt?? Ef a jinx, it's time for this team to stop thinking like a sorry team, and act like one that wants to win in the next decade or so.

You really believe that the players were thinking like a sorry team last season?

Or this off season for that matter?

I'm the only one, well there are probably others as well, who thinks the team is jinxed.

 

[Ed Burmila]

Every year there is a big hubbub about a couple guys who do terribly on the test. Simeon Rice got a 4. In the end, it rarely seems to hurt the player's draft status all that much.

Daunte Culpepper did not do all that well on the Wonderlic, and part of Brett Favre's free-fall out of the first round had to do with questions about his intelligence.

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Then you are calling your own argument dumb. You equated Pro Bowl appearances to Wunderlich under performance.

No I didn't. I used Culpepper, Marino, and Donovan as examples that there is no correlation between Wonderlic performance and NFL performance. This is a FACT that has been confirmed in multiple studies.