Wonderlic Results

[MissionCoach]

Per McShay on ESPN Insider:

Wonderlic results
The official results of the Wonderlic test, which was administered at the combine, have been made available. Although there's no Vince Young-gate to report, there are some interesting scores, nonetheless. A year ago, five players (Syracuse DE Kader Drame, Alabama ILB Freddie Roach, Louisville DT Montavious Stanley, NC State TE T.J. Williams and Oklahoma CB Chijioke Onyenegecha) tied for the worst score . The dubious distinction in 2007 goes to Auburn CB David Irons and Weber State S Bo Smith, who each scored 4 out of 50 on the test. The highest score in this year's class was a 41 (Texas G Justin Blalock), and only eight of the 326 players who took the test (at least once) scored a 10 or lower.

Here's a look at the best and worst from this year's Wonderlic results:

Best 10 scores
1. Justin Blalock, G, Texas (41)
2. Anthony Pudewell, TE, Nevada (39)
3. Kody Bliss, PK, Auburn (38)
T-4. Jon Cornish, RB, Kansas (37)
T-4. Brandon Harrison, S, Stanford (37)
T-6. Scott Chandler, TE, Iowa (36)
T-6. Daniel Sepulveda, PT, Baylor (36)
T-6. Jared Zabransky, QB, Boise State (36)
9. Jordan Kent, WR, Oregon (35)
10. John Beck, QB, BYU (34)

Worst 10 scores
T-1. David Irons, CB, Auburn (4)
T-1. Bo Smith, S, Weber State (4)
3. Earl Everett, OLB, Florida (5)
T-4. James Jones, WR, San Jose State (9)
T-4. Turk McBride, DT, Tennessee (9)
T-4. Julius Wilson, OT, UAB (9)
T-7. Brandon Mebane, DT, Cal (10)
T-7. Matt Trannon, WR, Michigan State (10)
T-9. Baraka Atkins, DE, Miami (11)
T-9. Alonzo Coleman, RB, Hampton (11)

 

[THUMPER]

Per McShay on ESPN Insider:

Wonderlic results
The official results of the Wonderlic test, which was administered at the combine, have been made available. Although there's no Vince Young-gate to report, there are some interesting scores, nonetheless. A year ago, five players (Syracuse DE Kader Drame, Alabama ILB Freddie Roach, Louisville DT Montavious Stanley, NC State TE T.J. Williams and Oklahoma CB Chijioke Onyenegecha) tied for the worst score . The dubious distinction in 2007 goes to Auburn CB David Irons and Weber State S Bo Smith, who each scored 4 out of 50 on the test. The highest score in this year's class was a 41 (Texas G Justin Blalock), and only eight of the 326 players who took the test (at least once) scored a 10 or lower.

Here's a look at the best and worst from this year's Wonderlic results:

Best 10 scores
1. Justin Blalock, G, Texas (41)
2. Anthony Pudewell, TE, Nevada (39)
3. Kody Bliss, PK, Auburn (38)
T-4. Jon Cornish, RB, Kansas (37)
T-4. Brandon Harrison, S, Stanford (37)
T-6. Scott Chandler, TE, Iowa (36)
T-6. Daniel Sepulveda, PT, Baylor (36)
T-6. Jared Zabransky, QB, Boise State (36)
9. Jordan Kent, WR, Oregon (35)
10. John Beck, QB, BYU (34)

Worst 10 scores
T-1. David Irons, CB, Auburn (4)
T-1. Bo Smith, S, Weber State (4)
3. Earl Everett, OLB, Florida (5)
T-4. James Jones, WR, San Jose State (9)
T-4. Turk McBride, DT, Tennessee (9)
T-4. Julius Wilson, OT, UAB (9)
T-7. Brandon Mebane, DT, Cal (10)
T-7. Matt Trannon, WR, Michigan State (10)
T-9. Baraka Atkins, DE, Miami (11)
T-9. Alonzo Coleman, RB, Hampton (11)

Just one more reason to select Justin Blalock.

 

[HardHittingRoy31]

I don't like the wonderlic test. It has nothing to do with your football knowledge. To me,can a prospect break down film?Can a prospect absorb the playbook? Can the prospect make the right changes at the line of scrimmage?
Is the prospect coachable? Is he a team player/leader? Is he a high character person?
Not what the Wonderlic test does! What is the fifth month of the year or of you drop a feather or a rock off a building,which one lands first,crap.
This is football!

 

[joseephuss]

I don't like the wonderlic test. It has nothing to do with your football knowledge. To me,can a prospect break down film?Can a prospect absorb the playbook? Can the prospect make the right changes at the line of scrimmage?
Is the prospect coachable? Is he a team player/leader? Is he a high character person?
Not what the Wonderlic test does! What is the fifth month of the year or of you drop a feather or a rock off a building,which one lands first,crap.
This is football!

It is just one of a number of tools. That is also why players get interviewed and discuss football. That is where they get to show off some of their football knowledge. A low or high wonderlic score alone does not say enough about a player. That is why you factor in everything else as well.

Look at Clarett last year. It wasn't his low wonderlic score that kept teams away from him. There were several factors including, but not limited to his slow forty time, his weight, his absence from football for two years and whatever else teams looked at to judge him.

The wonderlic can help teams in their evaluation and that is what they are looking for. The more methods for narrowing down the choices the better.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I don't like the wonderlic test. It has nothing to do with your football knowledge. To me,can a prospect break down film?Can a prospect absorb the playbook? Can the prospect make the right changes at the line of scrimmage?
Is the prospect coachable? Is he a team player/leader? Is he a high character person?
Not what the Wonderlic test does! What is the fifth month of the year or of you drop a feather or a rock off a building,which one lands first,crap.
This is football!

The highlighted is exactly what the Wonderlic test examines. It is an aptitude assesment for the ability to learn, adapte, and problem solve. All three are very important for an NFL player to have. Those that can't won't excel much beyond their current level of play. Consider it a "mental upside" test. Is the player mentally able to grow as a player mentally. Usually, by the third year, physically they cannot grow must more. Everything else is mental.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Ok I'm officially on the Blalock bandwagon.

 

[HardHittingRoy31]

I believe Dan Marino scored a poor Wonderlic test. We all know what he did in the NFL. Same thing for Vince Young,who scored low.

 

[InmanRoshi]

Blalock also scored a 1280 on his SAT. He's a smart guy, and a big reason why the Longhorns could move him around the line in mid-season and never miss a beat.

Of course the fact that he's the smartest player in the draft, to go along one of the strongest and most versatile doesn't really mean anything. What means something is that he's wore the same uniform in college as Mike Williams, therefore he'll be a bust. Its just simple logic. You can't debate it.

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UT's Blalock shakes lineman stereotypes
09:01 PM CST on Thursday, December 28, 2006
By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
SAN ANTONIO – Kids who win science fairs and score 1120 on the SAT in seventh grade, who get invited to prestigious academic camps and play the tuba in their middle school band, aren't supposed to be the best player on the football team. They're the ones football players beat up.
Then, there's Texas All-America offensive lineman Justin Blalock of Plano East, a soon-to-be NFL millionaire who at 6-4 and 335 pounds is proud to say he's a card-carrying geek.

He crushes defenders, like the blitzing Southern Cal safety he flattened on Vince
Young's touchdown run that clinched the national title last season. But ask Blalock
about his career highlights and he includes his presentation on electromagnetism in
eighth grade that won him a trip to Austin for the state science fair. His 1120 SAT score in seventh grade landed him in an academic summer camp at the prestigious McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., whose alumni include media mogul Ted Turner. Blalock did so well at the camp, he was invited to attend the private, all-boys' institution for high school. One problem: no football team.

"I think people see the stereotypical offensive lineman as a big, uncoordinated mess
who has trouble tying a shoe or walking through a room without stumbling over a
piece of furniture," said Blalock, who possesses a wicked, dry sense of humor. "Most
people think we're not bright because we've chosen a position where we basically
push on another guy for three-plus hours every game."

This season, Blalock was a finalist for two of college football's top lineman honors –
the Lombardi Award and the Outland Trophy. He can bench-press more than 500
pounds. He is projected as a first-round pick in April's NFL draft because he's so
smart and athletic, he can play all three line positions – guard, tackle and center.
While you might expect a star football player to fail to mention he played tuba in the
middle school band, Blalock embraces that fact. Last month at the Home Depot
College Football Awards in Orlando, Fla., he proudly told television producers that he also played flute, trombone, drums and guitar.

"He's kind of a smart aleck," said Texas defensive tackle Frank Okam of Lake Highlands. "Justin's a quirky guy. He's always in a technology store, buying the latest electric toothbrush or some kind of weird alarm clock. It wouldn't surprise me if he had science magazines laying around his apartment."
In the locker room after practice, Blalock is likely to start talking to an unsuspecting teammate about the difference between nuclear fusion and fission, just to get under his skin.


"That's Justin," said senior defensive end Tim Crowder. "He's kind of proud to be a geek. When I first met him, Ithought he was weird. Now, I know that's just Justin being Justin."

Texas coach Mack Brown joked that Blalock's intelligence can be intimidating. (At least he sounded as if he was joking.) "Justin's mom is a Northwestern graduate, and he's definitely the philosophical one in the group," Brown said. "If you're sitting and talking to him at dinner, you wouldn't think he's one of the best linemen in the country and in the history of Texas football. "He wouldn't even be talking about football. He'd be talking about world peace or the economy. I don't talk to him much because I don't want to get caught in a conversation and make him realize his coach's deficiencies."

Blalock's mother, Jackie Blalock Robinson, was the first person in her immediate family to graduate from college. After getting her degree from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, she worked as a reporter before going back to Northwestern for a graduate degree in marketing. She's now a program manager for Nortel Networks. "From the time he was 8 or 9, Sunday school teachers would play games to get kids to learn stuff out of the Bible and Justin always won," his mother said. "So he was competitive as well as smart.

"Being the only child, he got lots of attention. I made certain we went to museums to make sure he knew learning could be fun as well as important." Blalock hasn't allowed a sack in 27 games for Texas, which faces Iowa Saturday in the Alamo Bowl. Blalock has started a school-record 50 straight games. He started 44 straight at right tackle but was moved to right guard for the last six because of an injury to another lineman.

"He'll be on an NFL team for 12 or 13 years, and that team will take him for granted," said former Cowboys scouting director Gil Brandt, now the draft analyst for NFL.com. "He'll never cause you any problems because he's a great character guy. "I think he can play center, guard, right tackle, maybe even left tackle. He's smart, athletic, strong, got great feet and works really hard. You don't start at the University of Texas for four years unless you're a special player."

Brown credits Blalock, senior center Lyle Sendlein and senior left guard Kasey Studdard with helping change the Longhorns' reputation while winning the national title over the past five years.
"They helped us get away from a soft label, being able to run the ball against anybody, being great protectors and great leaders," Brown said. "Their toughness will be the hardest thing we have to replace next year. We have some young linemen who will really have to step up to continue to be as physical as those guys." Blalock takes pride in Texas' success and says he hopes other pocket protectors (hulking linemen) won't be afraid to embrace their inner geek.

"I know people think most of us big guys lift weights all day and are some kind of meathead," Blalock said. "I'm trying to dispel that. That's my real goal in life."


School: Texas
Pos.: Offensive lineman
JUSTIN BLALOCK
Ht.-Wt.: 6-4, 335
Class: Senior
High school: Plano East
Notable: Blalock and DT Derek Lokey of Denton Ryan are the strongest players on the Texas team. Both bench-press 515 pounds. ... Of Texas' 23 rushing TDs this season, 17 have been behind Blalock. ... Graduated Dec. 9 with a degree in youth and community studies and a minor in business. ... Chose Texas over Michigan, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, UCLA and Florida. ... Scored a 1280 on his SAT. ... Was one of five finalists in 2002 for the Watkins Award, presented to the nation's top black high school scholar-athletes. ... Also played basketball and hockey (goalie) growing up. ... Blalock had never been injured in football before a knee strain against Kansas State on Nov. 11 caused him to leave the game in the second half.
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[YosemiteSam]

I believe Dan Marino scored a poor Wonderlic test. We all know what he did in the NFL. Same thing for Vince Young,who scored low.

Devils advocate here...

When you 306. for an arm that fires so hard and fast you don't even have to lead the receiver, you don't need to score that high on the Wonderlic test. :laugh2:

 

[HardHittingRoy31]

Blalock also scored a 1280 on his SAT. He's a smart guy, and a big reason why the Longhorns could move him around the line in mid-season and never miss a beat.

Of course the fact that he's the smartest player in the draft, to go along one of the strongest and most versatile doesn't really mean anything. What means something is that he's wore the same uniform in college as Mike Williams, therefore he'll be a bust. Its just simple logic. You can't debate it.

I am not a big Blalock fan,but I like a smart guy on and off the field. But I also don't Dallas to waste a pick on a guard @22.:starspin

 

[YosemiteSam]

Blalock also scored a 1280 on his SAT. He's a smart guy, and a big reason why the Longhorns could move him around the line in mid-season and never miss a beat.

Of course the fact that he's the smartest player in the draft, to go along one of the strongest and most versatile doesn't really mean anything. What means something is that he's wore the same uniform in college as Mike Williams, therefore he'll be a bust. Its just simple logic. You can't debate it.

I suspect he will make a solid lineman; (probably a guard) just not a dominating tackle. Kyle Kosier anybody?

 

[K-Mart]

Ok I'm officially on the Blalock bandwagon.

Just when I thought we were over this "Draft Blalock" push....the guy gets a 41 in the wonderlic and here we go again....by the way...Vince Young got like a 6 or something last year....I wonder how he turned out...

 

[AbeBeta]

I believe Dan Marino scored a poor Wonderlic test. We all know what he did in the NFL. Same thing for Vince Young,who scored low.

Big difference -- teams didn't pay much attention to the Wonderlic when Marino was coming out -- teams pay a ton of attention to it when Young was coming out. Agents have copies now, tons of players spend time preparing. To me, that makes Young's score far more troubling than Marino's

 

[InmanRoshi]

Immediately, he gives your line an instant quality backup at 4 positions along the offensive line. Long term as a starter, I think he could be a good tackle, an All Pro caliber guard or center and gives your team incredible flexibility on deciding which of your current OL you want to retain or resign. This isn't merely a 'pretty good' player. How soon we forget that he was the anchor behind a Texas offensive line that won the National Championship and made Cedric Benson and Vince Young Top 5 picks.

I know fans think guards rank way below a fantasy football position like WR, and guards also probably aren't that important in Madden. But know that NFL Front Office executives gave the top 3 offensive guards in this free agent market a combined 50 million in guaranteed signing bonuses. Seems like NFL Offices think they're pretty valuable.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I don't like the wonderlic test. It has nothing to do with your football knowledge. To me,can a prospect break down film?Can a prospect absorb the playbook? Can the prospect make the right changes at the line of scrimmage?
Is the prospect coachable? Is he a team player/leader? Is he a high character person?
Not what the Wonderlic test does! What is the fifth month of the year or of you drop a feather or a rock off a building,which one lands first,crap.
This is football!

Im not a big fan either but how in the world do you get a 4? Thats just sad as they at least went to a few college classes.

 

[AbeBeta]

Im not a big fan either but how in the world do you get a 4? Thats just sad as they at least went to a few college classes.

Three ways. A. You are stupid. B. You don't take it seriously. C. You potentially have a learning disability that impacts your performance on timed tests.

C teams can work with. A and B are problems.

 

[Hoofbite]

Just when I thought we were over this "Draft Blalock" push....the guy gets a 41 in the wonderlic and here we go again....by the way...Vince Young got like a 6 or something last year....I wonder how he turned out...

How has he turned out? All 1 season of play and all. Vince is an exception, not the standard. Don't get caught up in the "if he can, why can't everyone else". For every Vince Young there is, there are many more single digit idiots who aren't playing.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Three ways. A. You are stupid. B. You don't take it seriously. C. You potentially have a learning disability that impacts your performance on timed tests.

C teams can work with. A and B are problems.

well A is obvious but ive seen the questions on the test and some of them a 2nd grader could answer. Thats not just dumb thats mentally handicapped.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Half the guys don't take that Wonderlic crap serious...

 

[AbeBeta]

well A is obvious but ive seen the questions on the test and some of them a 2nd grader could answer. Thats not just dumb thats mentally handicapped.

It is a TIMED test. The questions aren't hard but you have to answer them very quickly.