An average SAT score doesn’t mean you won’t get into college. An average 40-yard dash time doesn’t mean you’ll have an unspectacular NFL career.
About halfway through the three-and-a-half hour SAT I took with about 20 other kids in in 2012, one girl asked to be excused. She never came back. Most of us test-taking students noticed the minor disruption, and after the time for a verbal section and a writing section was over, we realized she had fled the cramped public high school classroom that College Board wanted us to think would determine our futures.
I’m not sure if an NFL-hopeful has ever ran out of Lucas Oil Stadium in the middle of his Wonderlic, but like the SATs, the annual week-long showcase consists of various mini-tests that fail to efficiently gauge the skills that will lead to professional success.