Ka taƙaita labarin:  (CNN) A matsayin mai tsaron baya na Baltimore Ravens, John Urschel ya riga ya sami yalwa a farantin sa. Yana yawan fuskantar manyan 'yan wasa masu tsaron gida a cikin NFL kuma yana yin iya ƙoƙarinsa don kiyaye mai tsaron gida Joe Flacco daga hanyar cutarwa. Amma ban da kokarinsa a filin wasa, Urschel kuma yana ci gaba da neman wani abin da ake buƙata wanda ba shi da alaƙa da 'yan wasan NFL: bincike na lissafi. Bai gamsu da girmamawar da ake yi masa a dakin gyaran tufafi ba, ya kuma nemi girmamawa daga manyan masana lissafi a duniya. "Ina da digiri na farko da digiri na biyu a fannin lissafi, duk tare da 4.0, da kuma takardun da aka buga a cikin manyan mujallu na lissafi", Urschel ya rubuta a cikin wani labarin kwanan nan don The Players 'Tribune. Sabon gudummawar da ya bayar ga ilimin lissafi shine takarda don Jaridar Lissafin Lissafi tare da taken esoteric mai ban sha'awa, "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians". Urschel, mai shekaru 23, ba ya yin wani kokari don ɓoye haɗakarsa ta baiwa: sunan Twitter na hukuma shi ne @MathMeetsFball. Yayin da labarin rayuwarsa ta biyu ya bazu a shafukan sada zumunta a kwanakin baya, masu amfani sun amsa da burgewa da sha'awa. "Kai ne gwarzo na (mai sha'awar kwallon kafa da kuma mai son rikitarwa / mai nazarin aiki a nan), " Roy Cardenas, wanda ya bayyana kansa a matsayin dalibi na Ph.D. Amma Urschel ya yarda cewa ya fuskanci tambayoyi daga jami'an NFL, 'yan jarida, magoya baya da kuma' yan uwansa masu ilimin lissafi game da dalilin da ya sa yake fuskantar hadarin yiwuwar raunin kwakwalwa daga wasan kwallon kafa yayin da yake da "aiki mai haske a gaban ni a cikin lissafi". Bayan kowane yanayi, ya ce a cikin labarin 'Yan wasan' Tribune, mahaifiyarsa tana ƙoƙarin hana shi ci gaba da buga ƙwallon ƙafa. Wanda ya kammala karatunsa a Penn State ya ce dalilin da ya sa ya ci gaba da tafiya ba don kuɗi ba ne (yana tuka Nissan Versa da aka yi amfani da shi kuma yana rayuwa da ƙasa da $ 25,000 a shekara) ko kuma "don wani matsayi na zamantakewa da ke tattare da kasancewa fitaccen ɗan wasa". Ya fi haka sauƙi. "Ina wasa ne domin ina son wasan. Ina son bugun mutane", in ji shi. "Akwai wani hanzari da ka samu lokacin da ka tafi...
Dan wasan na NFL ya wallafa takardu da dama a manyan mujallu na lissafi. Ya ci gaba da buga kwallon kafa duk da hadarin yiwuwar raunin kwakwalwa. "Ina wasa ne domin ina son wasan. Ina son buga mutane, "in ji shi.