Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel went to MIT this offseason to pursue his doctorate in mathematics.
Specifically, he was studying Spectral Graph Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra and Machine Learning, as his MIT directory shows. He also has his own research page.
What Urschel didn’t expect was that he would learn about football from the Division III Engineers while on the Cambridge, Mass. campus.
Urschel fulfilled his mother’s longtime dream of going to MIT. She so desperately wanted him to go there instead of Penn State, where he ultimately got his undergraduate degree, that she called MIT’s coach and asked him to recruit her son.