Intelligence as Curse

We're headquartered on the Stanford campus this week, which has brought to mind one of our favorite football scouting reports ever: John Clayton's strangely damning take on Kwame Harris, an All-Pac-10 offensive lineman for the Cardinal in the early part of the millennium. Clayton loved Harris's arms, technique, and strength, but didn't likehis head—and not because of any lackluster Wonderlic scores, either. No, Clayton's biggest negative was:

Harris is so intelligent that some teammates have...