John Urschel
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Position (s): Offensive Guard |
Jersey number (s): 64 |
| born on June 24, 1991 in Winnipeg , Canada | |
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| Active : 2014 - 2016 | |
| NFL Draft : 2014 / Round: 5 / Pick: 175 | |
| College : Penn State | |
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| Games | 40 |
| as a starter | 13 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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John Cameron Urschel (born June 24, 1991 in Winnipeg ) is a former Canadian American football player and mathematician . He played college football at Pennsylvania State University from 2009 to 2013 and in the NFL for the Baltimore Ravens from 2014 to 2016 .
Life
Born in 1991 to a surgeon and lawyer in Winnipeg, Canada, John Urschel graduated from a Jesuit- run private high school in Buffalo before studying mathematics at Pennsylvania State University . There he obtained a bachelor's degree in May 2012 , each with a perfect grade point average of 4.0 ( GPA ) - and a year later a master’s degree . He has been a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2016 . In this context, he conducts research in the areas of spectral graph theory , numerical linear algebra and machine learning . In addition to publishing several articles in mathematical journals , he has given various courses at his alma mater . Playing chess is one of his leisure interests .
During his studies, John Urschel played college football at Pennsylvania State University from 2009 to 2013 on an athletic scholarship . He was the team captain of the Penn State Nittany Lions during that time and received the National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy, awarded to the college football player with the best combination of academic achievement, athletic achievement, and community service in 2013 and in 2014 the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union for the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States .
In 2014, John Urschel was selected in the fifth round of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens from the NFL professional league . From 2014 to 2016, he played a total of 40 games as offensive guard for the team in three seasons , including 13 games on the starting grid. In July 2017, he surprisingly ended his active professional career at the age of 26, two days after the news of a case study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the incidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in deceased American football players.
Web links
- John Urschel: Profile at NFL.com (English)
- Official Athletic Site of Penn State: John Urschel (English)
- John Urschel's Homepage - MIT Mathematics (English, with picture)
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| SURNAME | Urschel, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urschel, John Cameron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian former American football player and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winnipeg |