Tomorrow in Indianapolis’s RCA Dome, the most talented young football players in the country begin gathering in their attempts to woo NFL scouts and secure the media attention and enormous bonuses that a high draft spot can bring. (See 2007 combine results.)
As ESPN.com reports,
The 2008 NFL scouting combine officially kicks off Wednesday with offensive linemen, tight ends, kickers, punters and specialists arriving in Indianapolis. The final group — defensive backs — shows up Saturday. Kickers and punters will work out at the RCA Dome on Friday. Workouts for position players begin Saturday with offensive linemen and tight ends, and finish Feb. 26 with cornerbacks and safeties.
Each player will be assessed for four days. The tough physical workout occurres on the fourth day and includes the 40-yard dash, bench press, three-cone drill, broad jump, vertical leap, 20-yard shuttle, 60-yard shuttle and position drills.
The controversial Wonderlic Test is taken on the second and third days. The Wonderlic is scored out out of a possible 50 points, with offensive tackles (25) and centers (24) leading the pack. Fullbacks (17) and halfbacks (16) receive the lowest scores on average.
Chris Leak falls somewhere between brine shrimp and inert gases. For the record, Vince Young’s much-ballyhooed score of 6 was allegedly a mistake.
I’m pretty skeptical as to how well the Wonderlic predicts success in the NFL. Hell, the SAT’s taken by high school students only vaguely predict college academic performance, and those are ostensibly measuring the same thing.
There, kids, I said it: the SAT’s are a joke. Don’t worry about studying for them, instead, feel free to smoke some drugs or do some sex. Or whatever you call it now. SAT scores are about as worthless as horoscopes or blood pressure numbers.
Maybe I’m just angry because I spent the night before my SAT’s with Jennifer Nicole Lee and subsequently only scored a 25 out of the possible 1600 points on the test.
But man, oh man, was it worth it. Even if I did have to go to Subway University instead of Stanford University. Because let’s be honest: I probably wasn’t going to make it into Stanford anyway. And those Subway cookies are pretty damn good. Just like Jennifer Nicole Lee.
