NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head

The game has changed significantly in the decades since he played. Pure size is no longer the advantage it once was.

Offensive and defensive playbooks are quite complex. New packages and formations are installed every week. And it isn't simply memorizing a great deal of information. Players (especially at professional levels) need quick reasoning skills to analyze everything unfolding around them at blistering speeds.

Before the NFL draft, incoming players go through a combine. Vertical leap, 40 yard dash times and the usual are compiled. But players now have to take an intelligence test as well.

Sure, they take the Wonderlic test, but that is just another factor in whether they are drafted and how much they are paid. That doesn't mean that there is a minimum score before you're allowed into the NFL. It is well known that the Wonderlic test is important for quarterbacks, but you rarely hear about the score of an offensive lineman.

Perfect score on the test is a 50 and one player made that (a punter). The average score is a 21. Frank Gore, a running back, scored a 6 on the test, but was still draf

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