Tim Tebow Not So Wonderlic
Finally, something that indicates Tebow might not be a successful NFL quarterback!
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Focus On the Family's ad turned out to be a rather timid, benign message which had mother Tebow talking about her “miracle baby.”
There's not a whole lot for which we regular folk can make fun of rising NFL quarterbacks. They're more athletic than us, will make more money than us, and will be able to continue post-playing careers saying completely idiotic and elementary things on television.
That's why the annual leaking of Wonderlic scores is the best part of the draft process. The Wonderlic is a completely meaningless test of mental ability that's proven to have zero correlation to future success at any position in the NFL, yet the league insists on giving it and players keep hilariously failing to be smart. It's nature's way of making it up to us!
The best possible score on the 12-minute, multiple-choice test is a 50, which Harvard grad and former Bengals punter Pat McInally actually accomplished back in 1975. Not so much Florida QB Tim Tebow, whose score of 22 puts him two points below average for quarterbacks and one point above "clerical worker" on a scale that matches football jobs with others.
Of course, at this point, we're compelled to point out that Dan Marino scored just a 13 -- 10 indicates "literacy" -- which further proves the test's only (noble) purpose is Schadenfreude. Marino may not have been capable of simple arithmetic (take a sample test here), but that didn't mean he couldn't check through reads or make use of an arm like God's own cannon.
Tebow was the lowest of the high-profile QBs in this class; Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen scored a 23, Texas' Colt McCoy a 25, and Oklahoma's Sam Bradford a 36 (clearly, none of the questions asked if a player should return for his senior year).
Scores beyond those haven't leaked yet, but if history is any indication -- Vince Young famously tallied a 6 -- there's a lot more hilarity to come.
Posted Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 - 2:29 PM EST
