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Houston GM denies report of Vince’s IQ score
Houston Texans general manager Charley Casserly is dismissing reports that Vince Young bombed on the NFL’s Wonderlic intelligence test.
Casserly told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis: “”I have been told that’s inaccurate from a source good enough for me to stand up here and quote it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t just get up here and say it.”
The buzz over the weekend was that Young had correctly answered just six of the 50 questions on the 12-minute cognitive-skills test — the kind of score that could drop his draft stock. The Web site Profootballtalk.com, which reported the initial results, says that the NFL goofed on the scoring of Young’s test and blames the league for leaking Young’s results before the alleged error could be corrected.
Given that the test results are supposed to be private and to be shared only with the teams, finding the real truth in any of this requires a test of its own. Casserly said the teams don’t even see the Wonderlic results until next week.
Still wondering what’s on the Wonderlic? Check out ESPN.com’s sample Wonderlic questions.
In other NFL combine news involving Texas quarterbacks … Texas A&M’s Reggie McNeal lit up the stopwatches Sunday with a 40-yard dash time of 4.35 seconds. That was faster than all of the running backs and most of the receivers who ran for the scouts Sunday. Texas State’s versatile quarterback Barrick Nealy turned in a more QB-like (but still impressive) time of 4.57. See the 40 times on NFL.com.
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By Dr. Bill Curtis
February 27, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this
1. Unless an individual gives permission for their scores to be released on a psychological test such as the Wonderlic, it is a violation of professional ethics for the score to be relased in any form. This is not the first time this has happened to an NFL hopeful.
2. There is growing acceptance that intelligence is composed from a number of different abilities (multiple intelligences). For quarterbacks, the ability to visualize space (spacial ability) is a critical skill. It is not measured by the Wonderlic.
3. Vince Young's demonstrated ability to study film and translate it into dissecting defenses during 2005 is a far better indicator of the intellectual skills he will need to perform in the NFL. It is surprising NFL teams are still using such a weak measure of the actual intellectual skills needed to perform the tasks at different positions, especially quarterback.
By wwj
February 27, 2006 04:17 PM | Link to this
it's easy to get caught up in high IQ scores, and dash times (see Reggie, who couldn't lead his team to top 20 status). it's too bad there isn't anything that can measure what i consider the most important quality of an athlete...HEART!
By Brian
February 27, 2006 07:45 AM | Link to this
I don't know why PFT is pointing fingers and freaking out about being wrong, they don't seem to care the rest of the time that 90% of the stuff they report is wrong.
By B Gregory
February 27, 2006 07:34 AM | Link to this
Have no idea how Vince did on his test, but I do know he needs to learn to speak and he needs to loose the word MAN from his vocabulary. He also needs to learn to dress properly when he goes to places such as the White House.