Athletes seem to be dropping faster than flies, but is it just selection or confirmation bias because we're looking for it? It's hard to get world wide data for all athletes, but I was able to get it for the NFL through 2022. In the past 20 years, the average number of deaths of current and former NFL players under age 65 was 31.2. In 2021 there were 47 and in 2022 there were 41. There was never more than 38 deaths in the 18 years prior to the vaccines.