John Urschel
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| Position: | Guard | ||||||
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| Date of birth: | June 24, 1991 | ||||||
| Place of birth: | Winnipeg, Manitoba | ||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||
| Weight: | 300 lb (136 kg) | ||||||
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| High school: | Buffalo (NY) Canisius | ||||||
| College: | Penn State | ||||||
| NFL Draft: | 2014 / Round: 5 / Pick: 175 | ||||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||||
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John Cameron Urschel (born June 24, 1991) is a Canadian-born American football guard for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Ravens in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State. Urschel has bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Penn State and is pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT.[1][2] He has published peer-reviewed articles in mathematics.[3][4][5] Urschel is a rated chess player with a provisional USCF rating of 1601.[6]
Early life
Urschel was born in Winnipeg, Canada. His parents were a surgeon and an attorney. He earned a bachelor's and master's in mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State, he was awarded the William V. Campbell Trophy, known as the "academic Heisman". He is also an accomplished chess player.[3][4][5]
Professional football career
2014 NFL draft
| Ht | Wt | Arm length | Hand size | 40-yd dash | 10-yd split | 20-yd split | 20-ss | 3-cone | Vert | Broad | BP | Wonderlic | |||||||
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| 6 ft 3 in | 313 lb | 33 in | 10 3⁄8 in | 5.31 s | 34.5 s | 5.7 s | 7.55 s | 29 in | 8 ft 6 in | 30 reps | 43 | ||||||||
| All values from NFL Combine[7] | |||||||||||||||||||
Urschel was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL draft. He played in 11 games, starting three, for the Ravens in 2014. He appeared in 16 games, starting seven, for the team in 2015.[8]
Mathematics career
In 2015, Urschel co-authored a paper in the Journal of Computational Mathematics[9] titled "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians". It includes "a cascadic multigrid algorithm for fast computation of the Fiedler vector of a graph Laplacian, namely, the eigenvector corresponding to the second smallest eigenvalue."[10]
Urschel began a Ph.D. in mathematics at MIT in 2016,[11] focusing on spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra, and machine learning.[12]
Chess career
Urschel competed in the 2015 Pittsburgh Open finishing 12th place (tied for 9th) with 3.0 points (+2-1=2) in the Under 1700 rating section.[13]
References
- ↑ "Ravens Lineman John Urschel Loves Math More Than You Love Anything". Deadspin. March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
- ↑ "John Urschel". Twitter. May 23, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
- 1 2 Alexandra Wolfe. "John Urschel: From the NFL to MIT". The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2016.
- 1 2 Michael S. Rosenwald. "NFL’s John Urschel has a brain made for math. And he’s willing to risk it on the field.". The Washington Post, October 9, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2016.
- 1 2 http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/baltimore-ravens-john-urschel-chess-champion-match-051816
- ↑ "John C Urschel". United States Chess Federation. October 30, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
- ↑ "John Urschel". NFL.com. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
- ↑ "John Urschel". pro-football-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- ↑ Mullen, Jethro (March 22, 2015). "Unusual equation: Baltimore Ravens' guard John Urschel is a math whiz". CNN.com. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- ↑ Urschel, John C.; Hu, Xiaozhe; Xu, Jinchao; Zikatanov, Ludmil T. (2015). "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians" (PDF). Journal of Computational Mathematics. 33 (2): 209–226. doi:10.4208/jcm.1412-m2014-0041.
- ↑ Miller, Stephen D. (2016). "'I plan to be a great mathematician': An NFL Offensive Lineman Shows He's One of Us" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 63 (2): 148–151. doi:10.1090/noti1331.
- ↑ Clements, Ron (May 25, 2016). "Ravens guard John Urschel's straight-A streak continues at MIT". Sporting News. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
- ↑ "2015 Pittsburg Open". United States Chess Federation. November 2, 2016. Retrieved November 2, 2016.