If there are still personnel people who believe in the Wonderlic, they’ve probably moved former Memphis QB Paxton Lynch down their draft boards. Lynch — widely regarded as the third-best QB prospect in the draft, behind Jared Goff and Carson Wentz — scored an 18, according to Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Of the players listed in McGinn’s QB ratings for the 2016 Draft, Wentz rated the highest with a score of 40, while Kevin Hogan was next with a 38. That won’t surprise anyone. He went to Stanford.Here are the Wonderlic scores of quarterbacks leaked to McGinn: Carson Wentz 40 Jared Goff 34 Paxton Lynch 18 Connor Cook 25 Christian Hackenberg 24 Dak Prescott 25 Jacoby Brissett 24 Kevin Hogan 38 Jeff Driskell 29 Cardale Jones 25 Nate Sudfeld 28 Josh Woodrum 32
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Again, not much should be made from these scores. Perusing this list posted on a site called Wonderlic Test Sample, you’ll find plenty of guys with low Wonderlic scores who went on to have fantastic NFL careers and those with high Wonderlic scores who didn’t amount to much in the NFL.
Here are some former NFL QBs who scored lower on the Wonderlic than Lynch: Dan Marino 16 Terry Bradshaw 16 Jim Kelly 15 Randall Cunningham 15 Donovan McNabb 14
And on the other end of the spectrum: Greg McElroy 48 Jason Maas 43 Drew Henson 42 Ryan Nassib 41 Bruce Eugene 41 Hugh Millen 41
