“Play football, become a neurosurgeon,”: Read Myron Rolle’s inspiring and life-changing decision after being cut from the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Myron Rolle went from being the most vulnerable to suffering an injury to the head to qualifying as a certified medical practitioner. The former Pittsburgh Steelers safety transitioned into one of the most successful and prosperous careers after his stint in the league, he is not only a neurosurgeon now but also a reputed author. He speaks on life in the NFL and after the NFL.
Football “has given me so much. Friends, fitness, focus, and the intangbibles: communication, teamwork, structure, discipline, and overcoming adversity.” He has been in the public eye for almost all of his life, in college, he was a high-rate recruit who secured nearly 80 scholarship offers, he began to get offers from the ninth grade itself while attending school in New Jersey. He went on to attend Florida State University and earned the Rhodes Scholarship in the process.
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Myron Rolle’s mother brought him back on track when the safety was completely lost in his life:
Myron left Tallahassee following his junior year to attend Oxford, he earned a Master’s Degree in medical anthropology but still wanted to be a professional NFL player. He got drafted in the sixth round of the 2010 draft. For most players, this is the end of the road, get into a great college and then find a way to the NFL and earn well, however, fate had other plans for Roelle.
After two seasons in the league with Tennessee and Pittsburgh, he left the league to follow his medical career. Now 35 years of age and a fourth-year senior neurosurgeon resident at Harvard Medical School, he tells his entire life story through his book, “The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery,” in the book he shares the role of his mother in helping him transition from the league to medical sciences.
After being cut from the NFL, Rolle felt worthless, he was confused and did not know what to do, his mother came to him at this time with a notebook that was rather worn out. The book had a list, with two entries on it. The first one was, “When you grow up… 1. Play football in the NFL, 2.Become a neurosurgeon.”
“This one is done, she said tapping the first entry. Now this one.” His mother told him it is time to move on and transition. Dr. Rolle is now solely focused on his charitable organization and his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital that will end in two years after which he will proceed to complete a one-year fellowship for pediatric neurosurgery. He is one of the few stories who has had a successful transition to a completely different field after his stint in the NFL and is definitely an inspiration.
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