It trumps the highly respectable 30 tallied by Redskins quarterback All of which probably means nothing when Fitzpatrick and his colleagues step on a football field.A 2009 study of 762 players from three draft classes found no correlation between intelligence, as measured by the Wonderlic test, and NFL performance except for tight ends and defensive backs — whose achievements increased with “We found in no cases was cognitive ability related to [football] performance,” said John W. Michel, an assistant professor at Towson University who co-authored the study. When coming into the league, Watson wowed everyone with a 48 on the Wonderlic, the same score as Fitzpatrick.The current Philadelphia Eagles guard/center was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Actors Ben Affleck, Will Smith and James Franco are said to have received near-perfect scores on their SAT’s®. SAT score: 500. A score of 10 qualifies you as functionally illiterate. Research indicates that it corresponds to an IQ of about 150.It was the second-highest score ever recorded by an NFL player on the 50-point test (trailing only the perfect 50 earned by fellow Harvard alum and former Cincinnati Bengal Pat McInally in 1975). Ryan Fitzpatrick - Harvard University. My guess is that Fitzpatrick sandbagged those last 20 points to avoid the geekitude ritually hung on those who ace their college boards.Note: Intentionally tanking a test question could be part of Fitzpatrick's M.O.
It's said that NFL teams target QBs with Wonderlics above 21. A player who does well tends to brag. When he took the test, a perfect score was a 1600. Ryan Joseph Fitzpatrick (born November 24, 1982), nicknamed Fitzmagic, is an American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). You be the judge:And if you're wondering how these "secret" scores become public, consider this. He did it on the Wonderlic, the yardstick used by the NFL to measure intellectual firepower. A player who bombs the Wonderlic may simply lack the smarts to keep quiet.Ryan Fitzpatrick: The NFL's smartest quarterback? Of 430 businesses that also used the Wonderlic test and reported scores to the company in 2003, executives scored best at an average of 28.1. The self-described "Apple computer junkie" spent Week 6 at home playing Scrabble on his iPad. More on this later.A combined SAT of 1350, a full 230 points below Fitzpatrick's score, will get a student an honest look from nearly all of the nation's top colleges and universities. He ranks second on Harvard's career list for pass completions, touchdowns, yards passing and pass completion percentage, topped only by Neil Rose (5,949 yards, 41 touchdowns, 455 completions, 62.4 percent, 1998–2002).
And at 12 minutes, it's roughly three times longer than the average NFL player's attention span, which pretty much explains the average NFL player's score on the thing.The average NFL player's score is 20. Two TDs in Week 4, three in Week 5 and four in Week 7. Check out the slideshow above for SAT scores of these famous celebrities, sports stars, politicians and others. That number puts him in closer intellectual company with Stephen Hawking than some of his teammates —and probably his coaches. Computer programmers tallied 27.1, and correctional officers 20.5. While a QB's stellar standardized test scores won't make him the next Terry Bradshaw (uh, okay, bad example), Fitzpatrick's 2010 numbers could send fantasy football owners scrambling to begin digging around for third grade report cards as part of their draft day prep.In his four starts this season with a winless team that would likely struggle to be competitive playing NCAA D-III ball, Fitzpatrick has thrown for 11 TDs and nearly 1,000 yards through the air.And his numbers are skewing in the right direction. They have seven children together.