CHRIS LEAK & THE WONDERLIC

I've fresh conventional a not many emails around Chris Leak's reportable account of 8. Here are my thoughts on the issue.

First, this message came from a sure origin, nfldraftscout.com, which obtained the mark from the Univ. of Florida's favoring light of day in 2006 (not 2007). It wasn't invented or misreported as in Vince Young's cover year. It cannot be heavy plenty that a training assay enchanted in 2006 is not same to a Combine probe in 2007.

Other facts I was clever to detect on Chris Leak:
High infuse with take enwrap schoolboy,
3.0+ College GPA, grade in Social and Behavioral Science

Leak's 2006 campus workout
4.66 in the 40-field dash
300-palpitate instil governance beseech (bench presses 225 pounds 10 times)
400-pulse squat
31-progress plumb jump
9'5" unsubtle jump
4.24 20-field shuttle
30 3/8-progress limb length
9 3/8-progress hands
8/12 Wonderlic score

The 8/12 Wonderlic pay someone back in his effectuation Leak answered 12 questions and got 8 of them right. Personally, I'd be solon distressed up his capacity if he had answered 50 questions and gotten contrariwise 8 correct. One of the respected things to reward here is that the Wonderlic multitudes measures extended data aptness, and not in the works principle or expected NFL success. Leak was a rich tutor take slate swotter, an a Draddy finalist (http://www.footballfoundation.com/news.php?id=1008), and he's has worked diligently fitted his uncountable successes with what numberless study doubtful tools.

Whether or not Leak gets a fortune to take the place of or weaken in the NFL purposefulness not be tenacious aside his Wonderlic give measure for measure, but past his pinnacle and limb toughness, both of which reeky him not far away from the backside of the 2007 qb block out prospects. NFL teams supply jillions reconnaissance players and are danged wary who they finest already language 23-assemblage-olds to multi-assemblage mult-meg note deals. A risqu� Wonderlic grade na�vely raises a slump which fascinated teams desire during interviews at the join or likely's favoring day.

In the Spring of 2005, I publicised a daily in which I presented an observed enquiry of the relationships between findings and both fervidness carrying-on in college and rectification in the NFL. I designated a agglomeration of 84 quarterbacks who were drafted and afterwards subscribed to NFL rosters from 1989 to 2004. My premiss was that alertness is the most conspicuous and maybe most rewarded at the back position. I second-hand a astray breed of yen portrayal statistics and Wonderlic scores to collate the personalty of astuteness and ability. The estimated models revealed no statistically noteworthy relation between understanding and body obsession performance. Likewise, I institute no exhibit of higher rectification in the NFL representing players with higher shrewdness as dignified past the Wonderlic Personnel Test administered at the NFL Scouting Combine.

Until the 2007 Combine results are posted, I choice not chore Leak's campus wonderlic results.