Next year, before the NFL draft, the Wonderlic scores of various prospects will inevitably leak, and many people will share those scores with the public. I no longer will be among them.

When the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Bob McGinn published some scores in a regular column last week, I broke out two of the lowest scores, players who got an 11 out of 50.

I was criticized at the time by my colleague Bomani Jones, who said I was participating in the act of "Wonderlic shaming."

My thinking has always been along these lines: the Wonderlic test has been part of the NFL draft evaluation process since the early 1970s. As long as scores are being used by teams to make decisions, in varying degrees, we should be able to talk about the scores produced by the players. Since the industry had been reporting on them for years, I thought the scores themselves had context.

Today, I learned that's just not true. While most people can inherently relate to or understand the 40-yard dash and the bench press rep test that players participate in during the combine, we don't have that same ability in regard to the Wonderlic because we lack the proper context. I can try to run a 40-yard dash outside right now and I can go to a gym and try to put up 225 pounds as many times as I can (answer: zero), but I couldn't take the Wonderlic. The real one, that is.

Until now.

Tuesday afternoon, the company's fourth-generation owner, Tyler Wonderlic, and the company's head psychologist, Michael Callans, flew in from Illinois to my home and administered the test.