OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Hayden Hurst has gone to a handful of schools over the past month with an important message.
"It's OK to not be OK," Hurst tells students.
Six years before Hurst was a first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens, he was a promising pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system who went from throwing 97 miles per hour to not being able to throw the ball straight. He had suddenly developed the "yips," a performance anxiety disorder that affected him so badly that pitches would sail over batters' heads.