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Myron Rolle plays defensive back for the Florida State Seminoles football team. He has the talent to play in the NFL, and is projected as a first round draft pick in the 2010 NFL draft. But, Rolle is putting his NFL dreams on hold to pursue another goal. He is delaying his football career to work towards becoming a neurosurgeon. 

Myron Rolle has been accepted as a Rhodes Scholar. Though currently training with elite trainer Tom Shaw at the Disney Wide World of Sports complex with some of the NFL’s best players by his side, including this year’s Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes, Rolle will be taking taking off to study at Oxford University in England.

Coming out of high school, Rolle was the number one ranked player in the country at his position. He’s always dreamed of playing in the NFL, but he’s also always dreamed of helping others through medicine.

Rolle graduated from Florida State as a pre-med student in 2 1/2 years.

“When I was at Florida State, they played up how I was really smart, this braniac-type of guy, and that was fine. But it’s like they would talk about how smart I am and then that was it. I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t want to just be great in that. I want to be known as a great football player too.’”

It isn’t often that you find a football player so passionate about healing. 

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