I greatly enjoyed this Wall Street Journal article about Joshua Dobbs, currently the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings. The opening paragraphs:
When quarterback Joshua Dobbs subbed in for the Minnesota Vikings last week and led them to a dramatic victory just days after they traded for him, it amazed his teammates whose names he barely knew when he stepped onto the field.
It also left his former colleagues dumbfounded—which isn’t exactly easy to do considering they’re rocket scientists.
“The quickness that he absorbed that playbook is astounding,” says Scott Colloredo, NASA’s Director of Engineering at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
Before Dobbs was a journeyman-turned-sensation for the Vikings, he majored in aerospace engineering at the University of Tennessee, where he was the rare SEC football player to take grueling science classes while also preparing to play in the NFL. Even more remarkably, Dobbs has kept up with the science while making millions of dollars in the pros: he has spent two offseasons moonlighting at NASA, where his bosses give him rave reviews and say he was just like any other engineer working on the Artemis program, except for how he made the football fans in the office giddy with excitement.
His co-workers these days are even happier to have him in their orbit.