From Blitzing To Bedpans
Submitted without comment from yesterday's WSJ article on The NFL's Smartest Team:
So we decided to use the numbers to see if we could figure out which team is the NFL's brainiest. Collecting test results from Web sites, published reports and people close to the NFL, we verified as many as we could with agents and teams and calculated the average scores for each team.
The exam, the Wonderlic Personnel Test, has been given to millions of job seekers in dozens of fields, and across the broader population the average score is 21. We found that the Rams offense averaged a 27, putting their scores on par with those of chemists and engineers. The first five players the Detroit Lions picked in the 2005 draft had an average of just above 28, while the Dallas Cowboys' three quarterbacks posted a mind-boggling average of 39, which puts them squarely in the company of the mental elite.
On the other end of the scale, we found a winless team whose 19.1 average is similar to the typical Wonderlic score for hospital orderlies. (Sorry, Green Bay Packers fans).
More detail on the bottom of the scale:
32. Green Bay Packers (0-3) 19.1
Winless Packers have nine players with scores below 14. The team declined to comment. Interesting fact: According to E.F. Wonderlic Co., the lowest average score for any occupation is "packer," with a 14.69
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