Vince Wilfork will be featured in ESPN The Magazine’s annual celebration of athletic physiques in its upcoming “Body Issue.”
Never mind that the larger-than-life nose tackle isn’t the prototypical lean athlete. The All-Pro Wilfork feels his place in the magazine may just be to show that strength and confidence come packaged in all shapes and sizes.
“I know I don’t have the six-packs and the eight-packs and all that … but I’m perfectly fine with what I am,” Wilfork said in an ESPN press release on Tuesday. “If people can look at me, look at a guy that’s 325-plus [pounds] doing an issue like this, I’m pretty sure that they might have a little confidence after seeing that it’s OK to be who you are.