Former NFL Safety and Neurosurgeon Dr. Myron Rolle Joins NFLPA in Advisory Role Focused on Player Brain Health

Dr. Myron Rolle Joins NFLPA as Strategic Advisor on Player Health

Per Adam Schefter, Dr. Myron L. Rolle has joined the NFL Players Association in a strategic advisory role focused on player health, brain cognition, and preventive care across the player lifecycle. The NFLPA said Rolle will contribute his clinical expertise and research to the organization.

Who Is Dr. Myron Rolle?

Rolle is one of the more unique figures in NFL history. He was a safety at Florida State and was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round (207th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft. He never played a regular-season game in the NFL, spending time with the Titans and briefly the Pittsburgh Steelers before leaving the league in 2013 to attend medical school.

Before entering the draft, Rolle had already earned a Rhodes Scholarship and spent the 2009-10 academic year at Oxford University, earning an MSc in Medical Anthropology. He later graduated from Florida State University College of Medicine in 2017, completed a neurosurgery residency at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and finished a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. He currently practices as a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida.

Rolle is also the author of "The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery" (2022) and has been involved in improving neurosurgical care in the Caribbean.