"Dad bod" is a very silly term. Any "dad bod" talked about by the popular media is almost always accompanied by height and extensive musculature. Mahomes is in the low end of "athleticism" in the NFL, but is 99th percentile on all metrics in the general male population.
In other words: "if you are extremely tall and/or extremely strong, you don't need be shredded to still be athletic". Who would have thought?
> In other words: "if you are extremely tall and/or extremely strong, you don't need be shredded to still be athletic". Who would have thought?
It's more than that. Being shredded is actively anti-athletic.
This isn't exactly a secret - pretty much anyone casually into bodybuilding or strength training knows that you lower body fat to look stronger, but raise body fat to actually be stronger, at least to some extent.
It's just a guess. There are 40,000,000 men worldwide in the top 1% of any metric, and I am fairly certain it's safe to assume that Mahomes can throw, lift, sprint, run long-distance, and stands tall enough to place in that top 40M every time.
I suppose some argument could be made that he's probably more in the 90s for everything rather than 99, but he's a full-time professionally trained athlete in the most dominant NFL team currently active, so I don't think calling 99% absent any formal data is too crazy.
If you asked me to bet over/under on 99th percentile for nearly all elite, world class level athletes of "normal" sports (i.e. not cornhole championships or something) I'd always take the over.
In other words: "if you are extremely tall and/or extremely strong, you don't need be shredded to still be athletic". Who would have thought?