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Meet DJ Uiagalelei, 2020's No. 1 QB With a Supersized Future

DJ Uiagalelei cannot drive a car, at least not legally. He doesn’t have a driver’s license and has no immediate plan to get one. When he’s not playing baseball or football, DJ battles his little brother Matayo and cousins in Fortnite. He and his brother are sneakerheads, with at least 80 pairs of shoes between them, all either size 13 or 14. DJ’s favorite food is chicken nuggets—the frozen kind—and DJ’s size, 6'4", 240 pounds, he inherits from his father’s Samoan roots. DJ’s mom has carried eight children, six of them as a surrogate mother, and DJ’s dad—Big Dave, they call him—is a bodyguard who’s worked security for celebrities like Chris Brown, Rihanna and DJ Khaled.