Richard & Wonderlic

He's going to need that education after he gets cut in training camp. Intelligence surely helps but success in the NFL matters more about athletic ability. Ask ex-DukeBlueDevil Ben Watson.

Jesus! He is freaking really smart. What did he major in though? I hope not communications....

Sounds like this guy has a future regardless of whether or not he makes the team.

I hope for his sake he makes it in the pros, but, unless something radical happens, he's already got life by the jewels. Great to read such stories. Knowing the intensity of D-One FB programs and the things they demand of their athletes, to see a kid do all of that and graduate EARLY with an MBA is something us mere mortals cannot identify with. Just the fact that he was drafted has placed him at a level of skill and performance most of us cannot fathom. Anyway...... If he gets cut, he'll probably be offered a management position in the Kraft Group.

The importance of the Wonderlic is that it helps to demonstrate a capacity for rational thinking. A player with a very-high Wonderlic isn't necessarily smarter than one with a more marginal score, but is, necessarily, more likely to be more coachable, and will tend to make decisions that make sense, that are predictable.
This makes them easier to manage. Not better, per see, in an of itself. That the test, itself, is so coachable should demonstrate this.

A low Wonderlic just means that they didn't demonstrate that capacity on that particular day. Similarly, there are players with perfectly good Wonderlic scores who've done some very irrational things, albeit very predictably so.

So, Reiss, why, exactly, doesn't the combine publish the scores just as they do for all of the other criteria (Bench Press reps, 40 times, etc)

For comparison, according to the Wikipedia article on the Wonderlic, Darryl Richard's score of 37 is higher than the average scores for ANY football position and even higher than the average Chemist (31) or Computer Programmer (29).

Brace, Pryor and Richard are all going to figure in the roster in the next two years. Wilfork (free agency), Seymour (free agency) and Green (salary cap casualty) will not all be around in 2010.

It doesn't mean he'll be good enough, but it means he'll be smart enough to give it his best shot. Drafting Richard could work out a treat, or it might not, but either way, he's probably worth the gamble.

He's not going to make the team. This would have been a dream come true draft for a first year head coach with a three year window to get the team to the playoffs but we're dealing with a slightly different set of circumstances here.

Didn't Ben Watson score a 42? Doesn't seem to be helping him much.

I noticed he had a very poor benchpress. I think 12 reps with 225. That may not matter. I've known of players who were very weak in the weightroom but had insane strength out on the field.

Ben watson went to georgia

Watson went to Duke, then transferred to Georgia.

This guy was an excellent college player.

Quinn Pitcock had like the most reps of 225 a few years ago as a DL and is now out of the league. Reps are not a guarantee, either. Wish Richards all the best, but maybe not this year. However, our DL IS gonna change faces in the next 2 years, we cant keep them all. My prediction, Brace takes over for Wilfork and we lose Seymour to FA (dont think we will pay him what he wants, since his production has been declining).

Just the fact that he was drafted continues to show that how he has beaten the odds. Having a MBA in Business Admin. with a concentration in Finance has already guaranteed his future. Here's to continuing to proof the "Nay sayer" wrong.

Smart people understand the game that's why New England always wins the head coach is smart and has smart people around him