Forget Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Forget LeBron James or Steph Curry. The most freakishly gifted athlete on the planet right now is 21-year-old baseball outfielder and American football quarterback Kyler Murray.

Having been selected ninth overall in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft last year by the Oakland Athletics, Murray is now entering the National Football League draft as the winner of the Heisman Trophy, the award for the best player in college American football.

Let us put that in perspective. The odds of a high-school senior player being drafted by an MLB side are around one in 200. The odds of being drafted by an NFL side are about nine in 10,000. Taken together, the chances of being selected by both sports in the first round are roughly the same as being struck by lightning whilst being attacked by a shark. Only seven men have played both MLB and NFL. The last such example, Deion “Prime Time” Sanders once tried to play both sports on the same day on Oct 11, 1992. Having competed for the Atlanta Falcons against the Miami Dolphins, he then flew to Pittsburgh, where the Atlanta Braves were playing the Pirates, only for his coach not to select him.