Former Tennessee Titans safety, Myron Rolle, is now a neurosurgery resident at Mass. General and Harvard Medical School who is on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
According to Erik Bacharach of the Tennessean, the neurosurgery floor that Rolle works on has been turned into a COVID-19 floor because of the influx of patients coming down with the virus in the area.
The former Titan and Pittsburgh Steeler likens the adjustment he has had to make to his football days.
“Obviously, neurosurgery is not directly connected to this upper respiratory illness,” Rolle said. “But just like in football, if you’re called to do something different that you weren’t expecting, you adjust. You adapt. They’re showing us a new formation that we didn’t see on tape? You’ve got to hunker down and get the job done. In my opinion, this novel disease is something like that. A formation, a personnel package that we haven’t seen before. We have to meet the challenge, and I’m happy to be able to join the fight.”
Tennessee selected Rolle in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft out of Florida State, but he never played in a single regular season game in the league.
However, that short-lived NFL career has allowed him to make an important contribution to society that he couldn’t have made otherwise from a football field.
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