Most people don’t grasp that if you gave DNA tests to African-Americans and only looked at the blackest self-identifying blacks, you’d wind up with more NFL running backs and fewer actuaries.
Over the last nine years, the NFL Most Valuable Player award has always gone to quarterbacks rather than to running backs, linebackers (Lawrence Taylor in 1986) or, remarkably, placekickers (Mark Moseley in 1982), because, obviously, under the rules of football, the quarterback is the most important player because he handles the ball on ever play.
Over the last five seasons, the MVP award has gone to Aaron Rodgers twice and Tom Brady once, but also to the running quarterback Lamar Jackson once and the passing quarterback Patrick Mahomes once.
And here's Lamar Jackson, the NFL's best running quarterback since Michael Vick, and his mother: pic.twitter.com/o8WlPke9Kf
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) August 26, 2022
Many Americans assume that because the Americans are allowed to self-identify racially in terms of which racial box they check that therefore the racial gaps must be smaller in reality than nominally. Instead, of course, they are larger.
Patrick Mahomes, for example, is better at the stereotypically white skill of passing while Lamar Jackson is better at the stereotypically black skill of running the football.
