We’re finally getting our hands on the results of the NFL Scouting Combine’s Wonderlic results, and it turns out that not only can Matthew Stafford throw a football, he can read and write too.

Stafford scored a 38 on the problem-solving test, an outstanding number. Fellow quarterbacks Mark Sanchez and Josh Freeman did well also, scoring a 28 and 27, respectively.

While scoring well means you won’t hurt your draft stock, bombing the test can drop you a few slots. Unless you’re Vince Young and score a 6, and despite having all the information in the world that the kid is an idiot, still got drafted too high. Now he is holding a clipboard for Kerry Collins because he isn’t smart enough to run the offense. But a 6 is the extreme — and no one bombed like that this year.

Only one football player in the history of the test ever aced the Wonderlic and scored a perfect 50, and that was Pat McInally, a Harvard receiver who went on to be an NFL punter. The lowest score of all-time was a 4 by Iowa State running back Darren Davis.

The highest score of those released in this year’s draft was from Kevin Barnes, a cornerback out of Maryland who scored a 41 on the test.

Other players of note include a group of extremely average to below-average wide receivers when it comes to smarts, including Percy Harvin (12), Michael Crabtree (15), and Darrius Heyward-Bey (14). Jeremy Maclin of Missouri scored a 25, a very good score for a wide receiver.

Andre Smith took time out from killing his draft stock to score a 17. Well, maybe he wasn’t taking time out from hurting his draft stock, but he certainly wasn’t helping it with that average score.

Overall, the general consensus is that no one killed their draft stock with their Wonderlic scores this year. There were some disappointing scores, but they were not so bad that they will cause a player to fall down the board, and there were some very good scores, but that won’t make a team reach for those players.

For a guy like Stafford, however, a 38 may very well be just what he needed to officially convince a GM that he should go as high as he will likely go. He may have made himself a few extra bucks by scoring so well.

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