John Urschel spent three seasons in the NFL before leaving to focus on his doctorate in math at MIT. “People had always told me I had natural ability in football,” he says. “In hindsight, I had way more natural ability in math than football.” WBUR
John Urschel watched the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft like a fan — he knew his name wouldn’t be called on the first day. But he says, he was almost certainly going to be drafted.Urschel waited all day the next day. No call. By the third day of the draft, he was starting to get nervous.
I’m not sure what I expected when I sat down to interview the guy who had left the NFL to finish his doctorate in mathematics at MIT. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a list of board game recommendations."Most kids get their allowance by, you know, mowing the lawn — things like this," Urschel says."My mom, because she recognized that I was strong in math, wanted to encourage me with respect to math.
Urschel’s dad had played football while in medical school. His mom was a lawyer. But, when he was a kid, Urschel hated school. He was counting the days until he could play football. "So the next day, they bumped me up to JV," Urschel says."They said, ‘Wow. This kid has no clue how to play football. But he's really good at hitting.’"Four years later, John Urschel was weighing his options for the next chapter in his football career.
Urschel was Penn State’s second-to-last recruit that season. He traveled to State College to accept the offer. That’s where he nervously approached longtime coach Joe Paterno for the first time. But he’s also aware of something else. If Penn State had been under sanctions when he was recruited, the school would not have had a scholarship to offer him. And if he hadn’t got to Penn State, he says, he might never have discovered something really important about himself.Urschel had always been smart. But he’d never really cared about academics. That changed at Penn State. One day, freshman year, Urschel was in class, listening to a lecture on differential equations.
By the end of his junior season, Urschel had completed his bachelor’s in engineering and started a master’s in mathematics.
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