OT - Terelle Pryor Genius?
http://deadspin.com/5836254/terrelle-pryors-wonderlic-score-was-reporte…
His wonderlic score is incredible. Academic All Big Ten (America?) at Ohio.
Edit: This link within the deadspin article is to a study of QB performance vs. Intelligence. Interesting stuff.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:18 PM ^
I'd assume he won't last in the league past age 30, leaving plenty of time for him to apply his knowledge elsewhere.
August 31st, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^
How about the fact that during his tenure at OSU he made multiple media facepalm quotes so the fact that his supposed football IQ test is this terrible just confirms that he is dumber than a box of rocks and Al Davis needs to die already.
August 31st, 2011 at 3:21 PM ^
Just another thing they can point at to try and act like they have the smartest football players. Ive heard enough about how they have more players make all-academic team than northwestern and the rest of the big ten, but they pay no attention to the majors like general studies; leisure studies or the mysterious exploring major that no one else in the B1G has.
August 31st, 2011 at 3:20 PM ^
I think I could score a 7 with half my brain tied behind my back.
August 31st, 2011 at 3:24 PM ^
TP did commit to UM, but RR told him to infiltrate OSU by any means necessary.
August 31st, 2011 at 3:29 PM ^
"To be fair to Terrelle, that's probably the first test he's taken in 3 years."
August 31st, 2011 at 3:59 PM ^
That is a classic comment. And it's much better than making Pryor a "victim" because someone leaked his score. Terrelle Pryor: martyr. The thought makes me want to vomit.
August 31st, 2011 at 3:51 PM ^
I though OT was offlimits, its game week dammit!
August 31st, 2011 at 4:01 PM ^
From UV:
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<br>As a reminder that will forever go unheeded, threads about the Big Ten and Michigan opponents are on topic. I will shake my fist at you and scream "why?" if you label a thread about Ohio State OT.
August 31st, 2011 at 5:14 PM ^
about former players.
August 31st, 2011 at 4:02 PM ^
Pryor's Wonderlic Test
Act 1, Scene 1
"I choose...NCAA Compliance."
August 31st, 2011 at 4:03 PM ^
August 31st, 2011 at 4:05 PM ^
so it makes sense that Oakland would draft him!
perhaps the OP should have titled this: "Al Davis genius"
August 31st, 2011 at 4:52 PM ^
QB at the highest level as the NFL is, requires many intangibles and first and foremost it requires intelligence. The sophistication of defenses and the complexity of the offenses with all the nuances and check downs make being able to process lots of information almost instantly paramount. This requires a high intellect and just because a dumb football player happens to be black does not in anyway make it racially motivated. Give me a break, stupid is stupid, no matter what color it comes in.
August 31st, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
fail
August 31st, 2011 at 6:08 PM ^
of 7 is probably like AP-level intelligence for the Oakland Raiders football team.
August 31st, 2011 at 6:59 PM ^
What did Vince Young get? It was a 7 also, right? Marino also was very low if I remember correctly.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:04 PM ^
I don't understand why the race card has to be played at every single turn. Yeah, the fact that Pryor is African-American is obviously what this is all about for blog site members who would probably list Denard, Desmond and CDubbya2 as 3 of their top 5 favorite Michigan players of all time. If I'm not mistaken, all 3 of those guys are decidedly black. What this boils down to is that society doesn't like stupid people who do stupid things, no matter the race.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:42 PM ^
Average intelligence is 21 or 22 I don't remember... I scored a 37 for a job while trying to get some wrong (needed to be in a certain range to qualify).
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<br>He's just ... Dumb.
August 31st, 2011 at 8:05 PM ^
Brian Griese had that 39...played a dozen years in the league despite not being able to run very fast or throw the ball with a ton of velocity, though he was very accurate... there is something to be said for having intelligence as a QB in the NFL.
Pryor ...eh...maybe in 5 years he can go to work selling glass for Sarniak.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:43 PM ^
August 31st, 2011 at 10:00 PM ^
If you take a multiple choice test and answer randomly, you will in all likelihood have a non-zero score. Imagine choosing "D" for every answer where the choices are A through E.
Does anyone know what the expected random score is for this test?
Before I go any further down this path, let me just copy and paste from Wikipedia's article on the Wonderlic:
"While an average football player usually scores around 20 points, Wonderlic, Inc. claims a score of at least 10 points suggests a person is literate."
September 1st, 2011 at 7:17 AM ^
Well there are 50 questions, so if they're evenly distributed between A-E than a sheet of D's should get that 10 points. 20 is supposed to equate to an IQ of 100, so 20 would be average for the general population.
August 31st, 2011 at 11:58 PM ^
He got a 22. (via his Twitter)
September 1st, 2011 at 12:24 AM ^
he took it twice, the second time he got a 22. Which makes sense, a lot of the questions are stupid trick questions that really test how well you're paying attention and how precise you are with words. So you should be able to do much better when you've already seen the question types once.
September 1st, 2011 at 12:28 AM ^
In the grand scheme of things, don't amount to much, but there is a reason why teams keep making all the players take it. There's a risk management aspect to signing any contract, and insurerors will tell you that people who get lower scores are at higher risk to get into off the field or other financial troubles.
I think in pryor's case, that's a foregone conclusion. If I were writing the contract, you can bet there'll be a lot less guaranteed money for players that have lower wonderlic scores, (on average, and normalized for draft position/ skill positition, etc.)
September 1st, 2011 at 12:59 AM ^
Terrelle Pryor
Research is the most used resource to finding out something you need from school papers to things you want to buy. Research is also used to find cheaper shopping supplies. For instance one store may have had a pricey type of material one was looking for and the other store you researched was a couple dollars cheaper. Coming out of high school I was thinking to my self what I wanted to do for a living and what I wanted to major in to start the quest for my job. Research is also used to find shopping cheaper shopping supplies.
I used the research process to find out what type of job specific major I wanted to major in and what type of job I wanted to do when I graduated from college. I researched different types of jobs, Criminal justice, business, communications, and education. I came up with criminal justice but couldn’t decide between business and criminal justice. I did research on business and did their pros and cons. Then, I did the pros and cons of criminal justice. I came up with in the business world you can either have a good chance at the type of business you want to start or a bad business that won’t sell or bring in money.
Another part of my research I did was the most important factors in the business, was what they want for what they can afford and is there a profit that can help me out to make some extra money.The availability of the job openings, the job entails, the pay hours. I looked up also whether I would have to be in school for along time or not to get a job. Also my personal enjoyment in the job would I love to do every day I woke up to go to work.
With out research I would not have been able to get these types of information for the job that I want to do for the rest of my life. If one would just go and do something with out researching first they could’ve missed something that could have later benefited later on or benefited one more then the other.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:42 AM ^
We know what he'll be doing after his NFL career is over...
"You have problem?"