I mean this is just objectively false. Athletes have to be intelligent because, at minimum, they’ll be academically disqualified if they fall below a certain GPA. Further, athletes who are stupid don’t succeed (Vince Young, JaMarcus Russell, Cody Ford).
This leads me to two concisions:
1) Jesse was a dork who got stuffed in lockers in high school and has a grudge against athletes;
2) Jesse thinks athletes, predominantly Black, all have an IQ of 12.