>> My name is John Urschel and I'm a mathematician and a professional football player
in the Fall and in Baltimore playing football, in the Spring.
I'm still training, but I'm at MIT in Boston taking coursework and doing research.
I played college football at Penn State for five years
and then I got drafted into the NFL in 2014.
And I've been with the Baltimore Ravens ever since.
A busy day at work might involve, you know, I get to the facility early in the morning.
I have meetings with position coaches.
I have meetings our offensive coordinator.
We have walkthroughs.
We watch film on the opponent.
We watch film of ourselves perhaps from the previous day.
For practice, we practice plays.
We, you know, we'll take a break for lunch.
We'll practice more plays.
We'll watch the film of the practice.
We'll watch film of the opponent.
We'll have meetings about, you know, different schemes and things of the sort.
And by that time, I think we're all ready to go home.
Not very much math gets done in season,
but maybe I'll play some chess or something to relax.
A typical day during the Spring for me starts off with, you know, physical training,
making sure I'm in shape for football still, and going over to the math department,
sitting in on courses, reading papers, going to talks, working on the research.
It's a pretty full day.
Math is my long-term plan.
I aspire to be a professor to do research that pushes the world forward, and at the same time,
to also inspire young people, both in math and not in math that I may encounter in my life.
I think that sports inspire everyone eventually.
And for me personally, you know, the NFL is a very short-lived career.
The average career is roughly three years and it's a right to do distribution,
so naturally the median is even less, so.