

The way I started playing football was that my dad played football at the University of Alberta. How did you get started playing football? I’d be done with it and I’d never touch it again! She’d get me one of them, take it home, get it out of the box and I’d finish it in about three seconds. She used to tell me stories that when I was a little kid, she would go out and buy me these puzzle-type toys, where you have the blocks and you have to put them in the right holes and things like that. When I was a kid she noticed that I was extremely gifted in math, solving puzzles and pattern recognition, so that’s what she pushed me towards. If she saw that I had a propensity for reading and writing, maybe she would have pushed me towards English. My mother raised me and she would push me towards what I was good at. I’m very passionate about math – it’s something I’ve been in love with for a very, very long time.

It came along a little later in life math is something I’ve done since I can remember. I didn’t start playing football until high school. Your passion for math started much earlier than your passion for football, right? Don’t worry, none of this will be on the midterm. But Urschel is anything but slow, as we found out during a recent chat with the biggest brain in the NFL. Forget about saying that five times fast, most people can barely say it one time slow.
