It’s never too late to pivot from N.F.L safety to neurosurgeon.

When Myron Rolle was cut from the Pittsburgh Steelers, he fell into a funk until his mother reminded him of his two childhood dreams: Play football, then become a neurosurgeon. It was time for Plan B.

Dr. Myron Rolle transitioned from the playing field to the medical field. In 2013, he left his football career behind to go to medical school.He later graduated from Florida State University College of Medicine in May 2017.

He’s currently a neurosurgery resident at Mass General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. From 2006 to 2008, he played for the Florida State Seminoles. The safety put his college football career at a standstill in 2009 after becoming a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in England.

The neurosurgeon also reflected upon the pressures of society concerning being a black man in the United States After coming from the University of Oxford in 2010, the Seminoles safety made himself eligible for the 2010 NFL Draft. The Tennessee Titans drafted him in the sixth round of that year’s draft. Rolle never played in a regular-season game for the Titans and spent some time with the Pittsburgh Steelers before the team cut him in 2012.