OU's Baker Mayfield passes in the Everest Training Center during Oklahoma Pro Day for Sooner football players in Norman, Okla., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman

Baker Mayfield's score on a new intelligence [test] was eye-opening. His performance throwing under pressure raised some eyebrows. His rating on ‘NFL throws’ might surprise.

At some point during the NFL combine, between the MRIs and the 15-minute team interviews and the early-morning drug tests, almost every prospect takes a little-known test known as the AIQ, or Athletic Intelligence Quotient. Dr. Scott Goldman and Dr. Jim Bowman have spent the last 15 years developing the exam, administered on a touchscreen and intended to improve upon the methodology of the Wonderlic test, the longtime benchmark for intelligence testing at the combine still in use today.

You’ve probably never heard of the AIQ, and that’s by design; two teams are under contract with Bowman and Goldman’s company—Athletic Intelligence Measures—and purchase the rookie data in full. (The company does not disclose the names of its clients.) About a half dozen additional teams each year buy portions of the data (typically, the test scores for the Top 100 prospects on their boards). The company has administered more than 4,000 tests across each of the major American sports leagues, and started administering the test at the combine in 2012.

Read the story from Sports Illustrated.