Amusingly, if you go by BMI, quite a few pro athletes <i>are</i> overweight, or even obese. (This is a good illustration of how idiotic BMI can be...).<p>For instance, Michael Jordan was slightlu overweight according to BMI. Shaquille O&#x27;Neal was past overweight and into obese. Wilt Chamberlin was overweight.<p>Leaving basketball for boxing, Muhammad Ali was well into overweight. Mike Tyson was obese.<p>How about American Football? I&#x27;m going to exclude line positions since a large part of their job is to be a wall and so we&#x27;d expect them to go for mass. Quarterbacks Dan Marino and Joe Montana: overweight. In fact, five of the last six Heisman Trophy winners (who were all quarterbacks) are overweight, and one is obese. The last four non-quarterback Heisman winners were running backs, and two were overweight and two were obese.