POSTED 5:56 p.m. EST, February 26, 2006
COMBINE OFFICIAL SCREWED UP VINCE'S WONDERLIC
A league source tells us that Texas quarterback Vince Young indeed scored a six on the Wonderlic test on Saturday -- but that the guy who graded the test screwed the thing up when totaling the number of right answers.
Combine officials, we're told, have re-scored the Young's test and the test of all other players who took it in his group. NFL teams will get the official Wonderlic results for all players later in the week.
On Saturday, there was widespread chatter at the combine that Young got only six out of 50 questions right on the standard test used by the NFL to gauge player intelligence. The Nashville Tennessean
corroborated the results of the low score in its Sunday edition.
Whether the actual number was 6 or 50 or something in between remains to be seen.
It's a major embarrassment, in our view, for the folks who put on the combine. Because it's inevitable that this information will get out (indeed, Pro Football Weekly
got their mitts on the full Wonderlic resultsfrom the 2005 combine), it's critical that the folks charged with grading the tests get it right.
It's even more important that the scores are right before the information is leaked.
We have a feeling that this one could get interesting. Stay tuned.