Any ranking of the sexiest subset of people is bound to be met with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Add in that the study was done by “sports data experts,” and there is reason to be cynical. But the website Lineups.com put together a ranking of the sexiest NFL players and found Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker ranks No. 3.
Butker was praised for his good looks just last week by President Donald Trump.
Rams quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is No. 1 on the list, with a score of 76.71 out of 100. He’s followed by Bills defensive end Joey Bosa (75.49), Butker (64.59), Bengals star Joe Burrow (64.46) and Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb (64.17).
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was No. 6 with a score of 63.37, while quarterback Patrick Mahomes ranked 35th (34.90).
A Lineups spokesman said in a news release the idea was to keep things “superficial” with the list.
This is from that release: “The concept of attractiveness is of course subjective and can be particularly challenging to define when it comes to athletes. A player’s charisma, talent on the field, and simply being in the public eye, can all influence how attractive one might perceive them to be.
“With our metrics, we wanted to keep things superficial, by measuring facial attractiveness, height, and audience thirst in order to create our ranking. “
Yeah, the news release really did say “audience thirst.”
The methodology of the survey explains that. Here’s how Lineups came up with the results.
It used Ranker’s list of The Hottest NFL Players of 2023 as a starting point
Player photos were run through something called AttractivenessTest, “a deep learning model that predicts how humans would rate someone’s facial attractiveness on a scale of 0 to 10”
Also, each player’s nine most recent Instagram posts were examined and “the frequency of comments that feature the ‘smiling face with heart-eyes’ (😍) emoji” was considered
The total number of likes on these comments was used as an additional measure to show how much other people agreed with this sentiment
And height made a difference. Players were awarded a higher score up to a limit of 6 foot 5. However, players taller than 6-5 received lower scores.