By FITSNews || Former Clemson University running back C.J. Spiller won’t be designing rocket launchers for whatever NFL team selects him in next month’s draft – he’ll be running with (and catching) footballs.
And that’s a good thing.
Spiller reportedly received the lowest mark of any member of the incoming NFL “Class of 2010″ on the Wonderlic Test, an aptitude assessment used to measure a prospect’s problem-solving abilities.
Spiller received 10 out of a possible 50 points on the exam – or twenty points below Stanford running back Toby Gerhardt, who paced the incoming running back class with a score of 30. Other strong Wonderlic scores? BYU’s Manase Tonga (29), LSU’s Charles Scott (26), Tennessee’s Montario Hardesty (25), Mississippi State’s Anthony Dixon (25) and North Dakota State’s Pat Paschall (25).
The average NFL player scored a 20 on the exam.
As bad as Spiller’s score was (10 is the minimum Wonderlic score for a subject to be designated as “literate”), it’s actually not the worst score ever. Former Texas star Vince Young reportedly scored a 6 on his first Wonderlic exam. Young eventually scored a 15 on the test.
If you want to take the Wonderlic test for yourself, click here.
Pic: Travis Bell, Sideline Carolina
By countryboy March 16, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Hey, not bad for a Clempsun grad.
By CNSYD March 16, 2010 at 8:26 pm
FITS has his garnet glasses on again. CJ will sign a contract for more money than FITS will see in his lifetime (or even his next lifetime). What FITS ignores is the wonderlic tests for QBs. It clearly shows a pattern. The lower scorers turned out to be the better QBs. Lets see, Donovan McNabb-14, Brett Favre-22, Terry Bradshaw-15, Dan Marino-16. They all could buy and sell FITS any day of the week. Well one USC east QB is listed. Anthony Wright made 16. So whatever it is that the test is supposed to measure in regard to football prowess, which is why these guys are being hired, it does not do too well.
By Boiler Pete March 16, 2010 at 9:36 pm
I scored a 41 while watching American Idol. But that’s a Big 10 education instead of the SEC or ACC.
Any college “graduate” who scores below 30 ought to be ashamed.
By Todd March 16, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Let’s get the fitsnews.com favorites Sanford, Bauer, McMaster (oh, yeah), Harrell, Leatherman, McConnell, Harrison and Toal to take this test and see what happens!!!!!
By Groundball March 17, 2010 at 7:40 am
Wasn’t this barely literate football player on the Deans List at Clemson? I guess problem solving questions are not asked in the huddle. No knock on Clemson, but what percentage of football players at any Division 1 school could make it into their college on academic merit alone?
By CNSYD March 17, 2010 at 11:12 am
Wait, I just re-read FITS’s post and realize my passionate retort missed his point. He wasn’t suggesting CJ’s abysmal score foreshadowed poor performance in the NFL, as my quickly and poorly formed rebuttal alleged. Instead, FITS merely mocks CJ for doing so poorly on the test and hints this might result from his having been educated at Clemson.
The real fallacy in FITS’s comment is the suggestion that CJ’s time at Clemson coincided with an education. Obviously our football players and some basketball players are merely guests of the University, and not students in any sense of the word. The University makes a degree available to them in exchange for their participation in our sports programs, but in no way should this disparage the education offered by Clemson to its legitimate students. I’m sure the same applies to other public college and universities throughout the state, if not nation.
By Nobody March 17, 2010 at 11:24 am
He was probably majoring in Party Right Through May er Parks Recreation and Tourism Management.
By Barney Fife March 17, 2010 at 11:35 am
35
By sid March 17, 2010 at 11:46 am
How did you score a 41, BP?
By Grade inflation March 17, 2010 at 11:47 am
“Wasn’t this barely literate football player on the Deans List at Clemson?”
http://www.independentmail.com/blogs/greg-wallace/2009/feb/17/cj_spiller/
By CNSYD March 17, 2010 at 1:18 pm
To the faux CNSYD who tries to hide behind my name: Your OBVIOUS lack of understanding of the construct of tests shows. When formulating items (questions to laymen) you need to determine what it is that you are trying to test. When holding a cut score study to determine post testing what “passing” is, you need to make the panelists understand that the percentage of examinees who can be expected to answer the item correctly must have some relationship to the scope and duties of the tasks they are expected to perform. Since Spiller’s college major was sociology, the emphasis on “problem solving”, as would be found in technical majors, may not be germaine. So when you want to debate under your OWN name in lieu of falsely using mine, I will be happy to engage in a discussion with you.
By Darth March 17, 2010 at 1:19 pm
37.5… BP got one more than I did.
By CNSYD March 17, 2010 at 1:52 pm
To all of you haters and the faux CNSYD, check this out as proof that Clemson rules and ya’ll suck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9XEkXtQMbA
By sid March 17, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Well, one more would be a 40, by my math, Darth. Maybe the Big 10 runs a different system, and that’s how he got to 41.
By Elwood March 17, 2010 at 2:26 pm
The Wonderlic has as much relevance to pro-football playing ability as timing a NASA engineer in the 40-yard dash does to space exploration. Knowing that .25 is a smaller number than .33 is no measure of problem solving ability and is irrelevant to the skills that count on the field.
By CNSYD March 17, 2010 at 2:32 pm
FITS, obviously you have a security problem with your site as interlopers can pose as other posters in order to try and discredit them. Since they obviously possess no balls and are afraid of exposure of that fact, you need to close the loophole. The posts at 11:12 AM and 1:52 PM are NOT mine.
By fitsnews March 17, 2010 at 2:43 pm
CNSYD (and CNSYD the impersonator),
Kids, kids, kids … behave yourselves, please.
-FITS
By really???? March 17, 2010 at 3:48 pm
CNSYD. really????? what aspect of this site implied that there was some security. Is it the fact that you can put in an email address such as a@bc.com????? Stop crying. Maybe if you changed your name to “iamawhinybaby” no one would copy it.
By Genomic Repairman March 17, 2010 at 4:20 pm
I scored a 40 while taking a dump!
By CNSYD March 17, 2010 at 4:58 pm
really????? or whoever you are, no courage huh? Then why is it required to put in an e-mail address except for some semblance of control? Afraid the lights will come on and the roaches will scatter?
By CNSYD LACKS BALLS March 17, 2010 at 5:44 pm
OK CNSYD, if you’re toting around a pair of 2-ton balls, why don’t you use your real name instead of CYNSYD? And provide your email?
Stop panicking like a school girl/Clemson alumn and man-up if you want everyone to respect you, in spite of your flawed logic, and stop mocking your posts.
By CNSYD March 17, 2010 at 9:19 pm
The e-mail for CNSYD (which is an acronym you midlands dipshits don’t understand) is tomwinsc@hotmail.com. Now your turn big boy. Let me understand you. Logic that does not parallel yours is flawed. So you are the source of all knowledge? BTW I ain’t panicked about a damn thing.
By Kenny March 18, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Are you kidding me? I missed 1 freakin’ question and spent a total of 1 semester in college. Not sure exactly what that says about colleges or students these days. I’m not saying I’m any genius either ’cause Lord knows that’s not the case, but come on. There were maybe 2 to 3 questions that actually took some time to figure out. Maybe the ones they take are harder, who knows.
By Dr. Tom Williams March 18, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I echo the sentiments expressed by the “fake” CNSYD on this site. Since I am now retired from Clemson, I am free to say what I want about the school — especially its’ third-rate forestry program — and the widespread corruption in the administration. I basically gave all student-athletes in my classes A’s to help them advance, and I refused to impose an attendance policy on them, even if they rebuked my sexual advances.
By CNSYD March 18, 2010 at 5:47 pm
No gonads. That is how I describe you little boys. Scared to come out in the light so you use my “screen” name, CNSYD, and my real name, Tom Williams, to pretend you are someone that you are not. I know that you all have turned over all the EVIDENCE you have of corruption to law enforcement. You haven’t? Guess you will be charged with obstruction, that is unless you have no evidence.
By Hymanisanidiot March 21, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I’d like to see a spelling bee showdown between Carolina’s C.C. Whitlock and Clemson’s Spiller. First to correctly spell a word with 5 or more letters would be the winner. It would take longer than the broadcast of one of those ESPN Thursday night games, perhaps several hours! But it would be so, so entertaining to watch these stellar “student”-athletes illustrate their university-level intellects!
By PeeCock July 17, 2011 at 7:57 am
No one said Spiller wasn’t a talented football player who won’t make more money while playing in the NFL than most of us could ever dream of. By the same token, he’s obviously a semi-literate moron who was hand-held and coddled his entire way through college by an administration and athletic department who has a long history of cheating. What does that tell you about the “education” he received at Pickens County A&M?
By ihateclimpsun July 18, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Only thing I can see that would make a literate person do poorly is the time limit. 12 min for 50 questions is pretty paltry, even though 99% of the questions are really easy. I made a 41. I let a high school drop out I’m close to take it and he made a 25. These low scores (From Marino, Vince Young, etc.) have to be stress/time limit or just not caring. Dumbness, with which Spiller has certainly been well-endowed, can only account for part of that score of 10.
But I’d rather not talk about how dumb CJ is. I’d rather talk about his 18 yd performance in Columbia in 09.