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The whole Wonderlic test seems somewhat conterintuitive. Would medical schools start evaluating their potential students with the LSAT, rather than the MCAT? I don't think anything in the football world replicates the things that are tested in the Wonderlic test. Why would you want to know how a player deals with the pressures of standardized testing, when you can watch a player's games, and, well, see him deal with pressure in actual football. If you are talking about the ability to absorb complex football schemes, the Wonderlic doesn't offer any indication of that ability other than a rough barameter of general intelligence. Most players don't prepare for the Wonderlic test, which of course, is in contrast to football schemes where much time is given to learn and absorb the systems. As someone brought up earlier in the thread, Akili Smith scored a 12 his first time around, and boasted that to a 37 with advanced preperation and studying. That is a superior indicator of an individual's ability to learn and apply material than a first time Wonderlic testing where no preperation was done.
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