Ryan Fitzpatrick: Too Smart For The NFL and Your Fantasy Football Team?

October 30, 2010   ·   Gary Dutery   ·   Jump to comments

There is a common myth that the average NFL player can't spell SAT, let alone 
actually pass the standardized college entrance exam. 
It's a myth cultivated by pro football stars who tend to wander above their 
intellectual pay grade by doing stuff best left to others.
Like talking.  
Not a problem for Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Buffalo Bills Harvard-educated quarterback and the fantasy world's waiver wire wonder of the week.
Fitzpatrick is scary smart. The Buffalo QB rang up a 1580 on the SAT. It's now called the Scholastic Reasoning Test, but still officially abbreviated SAT. Go figure. When he took the test, a perfect score was a 1600. My guess is that Fitzpatrick sandbagged those last 20 points to avoid the geekitude ritually hung on those who ace their college boards.
Note: Intentionally tanking a test question could be part of Fitzpatrick's M.O. He did it on the Wonderlic, the yardstick used by the NFL to measure intellectual ...

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