Ravens' John Urschel gets straight A's in four PhD courses.
Ravens guard and MIT PhD candidate, John Urschel, is a master on the field. and on the chess board.
Ravens star, 26, who is also pursuing a PhD in math at MIT, RETIRES abruptly after shock study shows 99% of NFL players’ brains are affected by degenerative disease CTE Jul 28, 2017 Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel has quit the NFL just days after the world’s biggest study into a degenerative brain disease showed that it affects 99 per cent of players.
Now in his third year as a doctoral student at MIT, John Urschel enrolled at the Institute while also playing as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. Early in his career, Urschel says, he prided himself on “not giving up football for math or math for football. But when I was honest with myself, I wasn’t pushing myself to be the.
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh has absolutely no excuse for ever botching a game management situation involving math. That’s because he’s got a Ph. D. candidate from MIT at his disposal on.
While he was an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, he simultaneously pursued his PhD in mathematics at MIT. Weaving together two separate narratives, Urschel relives for us the most pivotal moments of his bifurcated life.
John Urschel: From the NFL to MIT Baltimore Ravens guard John Urschel has an unusual off-season pursuit: He’s working on his Ph.D. in mathematics.
Urschel — a 2014 draft pick for the Ravens — wrote in the Players’ Tribune that “attending graduate school at MIT had always been a dream,” but a dream that he initially thought would.