As a math scholar, Ravens offensive guard John Urschel is accustomed to applying his knowledge and authoring complicated papers in academic journals.
A winner of the William V. Campbell Trophy given to the top scholar-athlete in the equivalent of the academic Heisman Trophy, Urschel has taught Vector Calculus Trigonometry to Penn State students.
And the 4.0 grade point average student had a paper published this year in the Journal of Computational Mathemetatics called “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph Laplacians.” A year ago, Urschel published a paper in the top math journal, Linear Algebra and Its Applications called “Spectra Bisection of Graphs and Connectedness.