5 things you didn’t know about: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif

Watch: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif talks with Richard Dagenais about being an NHL draft pick 

MONTREAL – He is the Kansas Chiefs NFL 6th round pick in the 2014 draft and he’s making history by becoming the tenth player in NFL draft history to be selected from a Canadian university.

But did you know that Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is also a high-achieving medical student at McGill University?

Here are five other things you may not know about the Montreal-bread football player.

1. He was “boat-schooled” for a year.

“I went on a sailboat trip with my family from Montreal down to the east coast and then Bahamas and Cuba . . . for a full year.”

Laurent was 16-years-old at the time. He took a year off from school and his parents took on the task of teaching him (Dad taught Math and mom taught the rest).

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 2. If he wasn’t playing football he’d be a sports doctor.

It makes sense because he would be combining his two biggest passions: sports and medicine.

But he wouldn’t do it for just any team: “I’d like to travel with an Olympic team, like the cross country or hockey team!”

Could his sister Delphine, a multiple medalist in cross-country skiing have inspired him?

 3. He intakes about 6,000 calories a day. 

It may sound like just another number until you get some perspective: the regular intake for an adult is about 2,500 calories per day.

That equals to doubling up your meals and then some.

Laurent’s regular breakfast usually consists of four to five eggs, cottage cheese, toast, fruit, juice and coffee, which he takes with one cream and one sugar.

4. His last read was . . . 

Approaches to Common Pediatric Diseases, a textbook for his last pediatric rotation, which he completed the day before he was drafted by the NFL.

“Proof that I don’t read much outside school,” he chuckled.

5. He plays the violin.

Further proof that Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a man of many talents!