This Offseason in Fat Athletes: Karlos Williams and Supportive Dadbodding

In case you missed it, Buffalo Bills Running Back Karlos Williams showed up to minicamp last month and wasn’t exactly field-ready.

 

Oh…oh my.

 

Williams unfortunately seems to have had a poor offseason in terms of fitness, and while putting on a few pounds away from football isn’t new, it certainly isn’t a great sign from someone who was otherwise pretty sensational in his rookie season.

 

Even Head Coach Rex Ryan, himself no stranger to snacking, did not mince words when speaking on Williams’ weight.

 

“Obviously he’s not anywhere close to where he needs to play at a high level,” Ryan told reporters last month. “So we’ve got to get some weight off him and he certainly understands that.”

 

When pushed to quantify just how many pounds Williams might need to lose, Ryan provided the kind of soundbite usually overheard in high school lunch rooms and on Lifetime’s Dance Moms.

 

“You guys can see him as well as I do. He’s clearly overweight,” Ryan cracked, clearly forgetting that he was once caught sneaking a pizza into his room while dieting and when confronted, tried to blame it on his son.

 

Williams was never particularly svelte—he tipped the scales at 230 pounds at the NFL Scouting Combine—but he admitted that his fiance’s offseason pregnancy led to some bad habits.

 

“It definitely is a first but I like to eat and then her being pregnant gave me an excuse to eat, so eating anything and everything,” Williams said. “She’d wake up, one or two o’clock, ‘I want a snack.’ Well I’m not going to sit here and watch you eat because I don’t want you to feel bad but it’s back to football. She’s getting back to working out herself so kind of motivating each other, feed off each other’s energy, and we’re getting ready for camp.”

 

That’s definitely a better explanation than heavy drinking, complete obliviousness, or a total lack of understanding of the human metabolic process, but even sympathy eating is a tough sell when your job is, you know, to be in good shape.

 

Karlos Williams has a healthy amount of competition at running back for the Bills, who are currently rostering ankleless wonder LeSean McCoy, hey-remember-them waiver warriors Mike Gillislee and Daniel “Boom” Herron, free agent acquisition James Wilder Jr., and rookie Jonathan Williams.