17 Facts About John Urschel

John Urschel played college football at Penn State and was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL draft.

John Urschel has bachelor's and master's degrees and a PhD, all in mathematics.

John Urschel is an advanced stats columnist for The Players' Tribune.

John Urschel served a three-year term on the College Football Playoff selection committee which began in the spring of 2020, and is an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John Urschel grew up in Buffalo, New York where he graduated from Canisius High School in 2009.

At Pennsylvania State University, John Urschel earned both a bachelor's degree in 2012 and a master's 2013 degree in mathematics before earning his PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021.

John Urschel was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL draft.

John Urschel played in 11 games, starting three, for the Ravens in 2014.

John Urschel appeared in 16 games, starting seven, for the team in 2015.

John Urschel played in 13 games, starting three, his final season in 2016.

On July 27,2017, John Urschel announced his retirement from the NFL after three seasons.

John Urschel was appointed to the College Football Playoff selection committee on January 22,2020, serving a three-year term which began in the spring of that year.

In 2015, John Urschel co-authored a paper in the Journal of Computational Mathematics titled "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians".

John Urschel was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

John Urschel is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

John Urschel competed in the 2015 Pittsburgh Open, finishing in 12th place with 3.0 points in the Under 1700 rating section.

John Urschel is married to writer Louisa Thomas, whom he met when she was profiling him for Grantland.