From the NFL to Math Professor at M.I.T.

[Luke Cage]

Some people need to be studied.

There are some boxers who have been in outright brawls their whole career that still speak clearly.

To be fair, I think they are actually studied. Some people pretty much don't see long term damage the same.

For example, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. is a boxer who got 100 fights and they say he witty af, doesn't stutter and shows no signs of brain damage - one of the sport's craziest examples. They performed a CAT scan on him awhile ago because it's such an anomaly.

sugar ray used to speak clearly too for a long time. but the last 5 years or so he started to show signs.
Might come with age

 

[IIVI]

Quite a number of NFL cheerleaders are additionally Engineering and STEM majors. Many retired cheerleaders now work in these industries.

 

[IIVI]

sugar ray used to speak clearly too for a long time. but the last 5 years or so he started to show signs.
Might come with age

Yeah Ray Leonard for sure had his wits for basically his whole life.

Ray Leonard and Chavez were around all types of crazy shyt during the 80s too.

 

[Devilinurear]

Nice

 

[MJ Truth]

Serious question. What would make this more impressive than someone else who did the same thing while working in any other profession??

 

[TEH]

Salute

 

[Mike_Pipeson]

I remember seeing this kat on some HBO segment some time ago. Glad he still doing big things

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Myron never played a game in the NFL though.

He had more than enough talent to play. NFL was bytchy about him because he took a year off before the draft to get his MSc at Oxford, and everyone knew he was going to leave to be a doctor after a contract or two so they half-blacklisted him onto practice squads for his whole tenure. Scout.com initially ranked him at #18 in the first round before he left for Oxford, dropped him to 3rd/4th round when he came back from Oxford, then he slipped to the end of the 6th and never got a real shot from teams at all.

Hill: Rolle should have been drafted higher

The recipient of the 2010 Most Snubbed award goes to Myron Rolle, who wasn't chosen until the 207th pick. If NFL teams truly cared about integrity, he would have been chosen before the sixth round.

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No, the recipient of the 2010 Most Snubbed award goes to Myron Rolle, who eventually was chosen by the Tennessee Titans with the 207th pick, the final selection of the sixth round.

I wish I could say Rolle's free fall was strictly football-related, but it's become apparent the biggest reason Rolle tumbled was that some NFL coaches and executives were unnerved by Rolle's tremendous off-field success, which included winning a Rhodes Scholarship.

The rejection of Myron Rolle

The NFL wanted him ... until he was named a Rhodes Scholar.

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Clearly, the NFL was already worried about Rolle's intellect. By the time of the 2010 draft, the former first-round prospect was listed as a likely third- or fourth-round pick. He then slipped all the way to the sixth round, drafted 207th overall, by the Tennessee Titans. He signed a four-year, non-guaranteed deal worth the league minimum salary.

Still, he was elated to be a on an NFL team, fulfilling one of his two lifelong dreams. And in training camp, Titan linebackers coach Dave McGinnis told Rolle that he not only had the talent, but the skill and the body to have a lengthy career. According to Rolle, this was a common sentiment from other coaches as well. (McGinnis, along with Rolle's former defensive coordinators, did not return repeated attempts to comment on this story.) At first, it seemed as if the only thing the Rhodes decision cost Rolle was money, a minor consideration for him. He would still catch on, have a career, and then go on to medical school. Everything was working out.

But Rolle soon realized his coaches were not treating him like other players. Instead of discussing football with him, they spoke to him as if he was some kind of a curious specimen rather than a football player. "The conversation wasn't ‘Hey Myron, I like the way you got on the hash mark, backpedaled, found the receiver in a Cover 2.' It was more like ‘Myron, so how do you know President Clinton?'" a reference to a trip he took to Africa with the former president and others as part of the Clinton Global Initiative. "The coaches and general managers, they wanted to ask me about how I felt about health care in the United States right now. Going for the Rhodes, it really put a label on me that was hard to shake, and frankly I don't think that I did shake it."

Up to this point, everything Rolle had done was with two careers in mind, one after the other. To him, there was nothing about an NFL career that would prohibit him from being a successful neurosurgeon, and vice versa. But once he arrived in the NFL, it became clear to him that his Oxford choice was not a false one. One could have either football, or a life without the game, not both.

 

[Luke Cage]

Serious question. What would make this more impressive than someone else who did the same thing while working in any other profession??

People don't usually get brain damage for living in other professions.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Lineman tend to be intelligent and varied. Obviously being massive human beings, they spend a lot of time to themselves, in their heads.

 

[Devilinurear]

Serious question. What would make this more impressive than someone else who did the same thing while working in any other profession??

Profesonal Athletes are not regarded as smart. Especially in math

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

And he's PAWGSET, mashallah :

I’ve been on the coli/sohh for so long that I knew someone would dig this up. I absolutely knew it!


Doesn’t diminish what the good bro has accomplished. Then again, can’t say I run into many sisters who are into exceptional bros too tough (maybe so but not in my experience)

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Imagine having the NFL as a side hustle...

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Serious question. What would make this more impressive than someone else who did the same thing while working in any other profession??

NFL is made up of some of the most elite athletes to have ever existed. Same is true academically of MIT and IAS. Most, it seems, would have to focus on one or the other to even have a shot.

But to your question, there are Navy SEALS who go to Harvard Law or whatever. Olympic Rowers graduating Med School, etc. All rare and extremely impressive.

 

[Astroslik]

Yup. Some other NFL players have degrees for Engineering and Math as well. I know Chase Blackburn has a math degree.

Luke Fortner who is currently the Jags' starting center has a Master's in Aerospace Engineering.

A lot of NFL players are physically equally matched or outmatched, so their processing, technique, etc. got to be on another level in order to standout and succeed.

Josh Dobbs in aerospace engineering as well