The Role of Intelligence

[-Mojo Jojo-]

This is a pretty vague question, but I'm curious what people think about value of intelligence outside the QB position. I generally pay no attention to Solecismic Test scores for other positions, and it struck me today (scouting for the eNFL draft) that I may be making a faulty assumption. Has anyone looked into this, or have hunches, anecdotes, or speculation to share? And even for QB's, I believe that is has been established that intelligence relates to the rate of learning formations. Is there any evidence that it does more than that? Any comments would be appreciated.

[gstelmack]

There is speculation (from another thread) that intelligence for O-Linemen can affect penalties in a mild way. There had been (unfounded?) speculation in the past that it may help development.

I do know that early on in my Draft Analyzer work I personally stopped trying to weight combine scores by position. I got burned too often by ignoring a combine score on a particular draftee, and I'm much more careful now about drafting a guy who has a low score in ANY area regardless of position.