The 23-year-old guard for the Baltimore Ravens has a masters in mathematics from Penn State, which he earned while keeping a 4.0 average.
During last night’s first round of the 2015 Draft, Urschel took over General Electric’s twitter account to livetweet advanced calculations about players’ speed, agility, and strength.
Quarterback Marcus Mariota, who was quickly nabbed by the Tennessee Titans with the second pick, throws the football about 56 miles per hour, Urschel calculated.
The formula Urschel used is complex to those of us not versed in advanced mathematics, but the impact is simple: Titans wide receiver Hakeem Nicks has a job catching passes that would cause most of us to duck and hide.