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.

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?

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

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 ...

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

When the 332 players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine this season show up at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, they will most likely be focused on impressing coaches and general managers in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is smart. Enough, already. Fitzpatrick reportedly scored a 48 on the Wonderlic test (50 is a perfect score) at the NFL Scouting Combine. The Wonderlic is an ...