Growing up, John Urschel was looking at two very different career paths. He wanted to be a football player, but his mother wished for her son to attend MIT, and become quite literally a rocket scientist.
With Urschel now living out his dream as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, it looks like he ended up winning. However, with Urschel now enrolled at MIT for graduate school, it seems as if a happy medium as been reached between mother and son.
Writing for the Players' Tribune as their Advanced Stats Columnist, Urschel pens a great essay on his experience at MIT thus far.