LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Undrafted Harvard tight end Ben Braunecker has a fallback plan in case he fails to make it in the NFL.
“Infectious disease [doctor],” Braunecker said on Sunday. “I’d like to be more research based. It’s what I love. It’s my passion.
Braunecker’s love of medicine developed over the last two years.
"I worked in a lab at Harvard Medical School for the past two summers,” Braunecker said. “[It is] a mitochondrial protein regulatory lab, so it's not infectious disease, but basically it’ll give you the fundamentals to be able to work in (an infectious disease) lab.