Hearing those words can make an NFL draft prospect shudder. The NFL Scouting Combine, which takes place this week in Indianapolis, has mental and psychological components that accompany the physical.

IQ testing is controversial, many experts agree. And there's no exception regarding using such testing in professional sports, where the Wonderlic has reigned supreme for decades. So, what is this ...

The Wonderlic test was conceived in 1936 to measure a person's general cognitive ability in the areas of vocabulary, reasoning, and math skills. It was first implemented in the NFL by Dallas Cowboys ...

The questions are not especially difficult, in and of themselves, but the compressed time frame is a wild card that can make questions seem more challenging. Although the Wonderlic has been used in ...

Johnny Manziel is more intelligent than Blake Bortles and Teddy Bridgewater. OK, that might not entirely be true. There's no perfect way to measure one's intelligence, as our yearly fretting about and ...

The next big event of the NFL calendar is the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis, held this year from February 28th through March 6th. The invited prospects will be measured, put through ...

If you are reading this article, then you have probably been informed by a hiring manager at your dream job that you will be required to take, and pass, a Wonderlic test to progress through the ...

IRVING - I first started writing about the NFL's use of the Wonderlic Test on draft-eligible prospects in the early '90's, at a time when some thought it was a mad-scientist-level effort in overkill.

The NFL will implement a new, expanded player-assessment test designed to provide a comprehensive look at a player's "non-physical capabilities, aptitudes and strengths," according to an NFL memo ...

Before an athlete can become an NFL star he has to train relentlessly, become a college standout, and then take a 50-question intelligence test in 12 minutes! Think you're smarter than an NFL player?

Analyzing potential NFL draft prospects is always an inexact science as teams and NFL fans as a whole try to equate both collegiate performance and a player's measurable skills to what a player can do ...