Can your eyes deceive you? After decimating the USC defense in the nation’s biggest college football game of the year, Texas quarterback Vince Young jumped into the NFL Draft. Searches on the Longhorn slinger rocketed past those of USC running back Reggie Bush (a former mortal lock for the top spot in the draft), and the NFL brain trust labeled Young the probable top pick.
But Young’s Rose Bowl bloom faded — could he really make the transition to the pressure-packed world of pro football? His searches slowed and he wound up neck and neck in Buzz with Bush. Then last weekend’s NFL Combine sent rumors swirling and searches on Young soaring.
Queries on Young jumped 36% after word leaked that he scored an ultra-low 6 out of 50 on his Wonderlic Test. After wrangling with the truth, Young supposedly retook the test, and eked out a passable 16. By this point, you’re probably asking the same question that led thousands of other folks to the warm embrace of Search — namely, “what is the wonderlic test?” It’s a 10-minute quiz designed to measure your intelligence, and it caused search spikes on “wonderlic test,” “sample wonderlic test,” and “vince young wonderlic test.” We wouldn’t recommend taking the test if you were one of the people who searched on “wonderlick test,” which sounds like an entirely different type of quiz.
Other college players looking to make the grade at the NFL Combine did so under the increasingly observant eye of football fanatics. Queries on the NFL Combine were up 673% for the week, and related searches on “nfl combine invites,” “nfl combine results,” and “2006 nfl combine” all surged. It seems everything the NFL touches is golden these days. Let’s just hope Vince Young has the same luck on his side as we head into April’s NFL Draft.
