On Day 3 of the 2014 NFL Draft, John Urschel received a call from then-Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome informing him that Baltimore would be selecting him in the fifth round. But Newsome had another question for Urschel: Was he fully committed to playing football?
Urschel had recently graduated from Penn State with a bachelor's degree in math -- he now has a master's in the field as well -- and there were concerns that Urschel had more of a love for math than he did football.
"It's such an interesting thing because at the time I really I took it as a slight and I really wanted to show people I truly love both of these things," Urschel said on Glenn Clark Radio May 15. "Football is extremely important to me. But I have to say in hindsight, I understand it because it turns out if you talked to me when I was entering the draft, I couldn't have imagined that three or four years later that math really would have dwarfed football in terms of my true love."
