Jun 27th 2008 10:57AM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: 49ers, NFC West
Every spring in the weeks leading up to the draft, somebody gets a hold of the prospects’ Wonderlic scores, the worst of the bunch are highlighted, and fans and media take a moment to point and gawk. But there’s an argument that a player’s Wonderlic results don’t correlate to NFL performance. Maybe that’s just a myth perpetuated by agents of low-scoring clients. Or maybe there’s some truth to it.
San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Mike Martz offers support for the latter. In an interview with the ’s Matt Barrows, Martz lauds running back Frank Gore for his ability to quickly pick up the offense. As Barrows points out, Gore had a “low-low” Wonderlic score and some teams “worried about his dyslexia almost as much as they did his surgically repaired knees.”
None of that matters to Martz, apparently:Continue Reading
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