[Video] CBS: John Urschel Crushes Calculus Off the Field
Few Penn State football players, past and present, have received more media coverage than now-former offensive guard John Urschel. It’s for good reason. The letterman also happens to be a math whiz and earned a perfect 4.0 GPA at Penn State while pursuing a mathematics degree and two master’s degrees.
Every media outlet covering Penn State football has done a profile on Urschel at one time or another (many, more than one), but this brief CBS News video is one of the better ones — and it came after this football career was over.
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