Why was Big Easy cast?

Easy seems like a good guy and he gave everything he had on the show. That said, as a casting decision, he was an outlier. This isn't a question of "Should they have cast Big Easy?" I'm genuinely just asking if anyone knows *why* they casted him?

I'm not even asking because he wasn't a great athlete. They've casted plenty of people who weren't athletes and he wasn't even the worst one on Fresh Meat. To quote Coral, Casey ran into a wall 8 times and took 22 minutes to draw a triangle.

I'm asking because shows like the Challenge are defined by their cast archetypes and we've never seen Easy's archetype before or since. For the rest of the Fresh Meat rookies, they all slot into a pre-existing archetype the show always leaned into. Casey: sheltered southern belle. Ev: actual athlete who takes the game too seriously. Evan: frat guy on spring break. Kenny: arrogant ladies' man. Etc, etc.

They typecasted Easy as the "funny fat guy," literally referring to him as the "Chris Farley of the Challenge" on his official Fresh Meat bio. It's the only archetype we hadn't seen before Fresh Meat and the only one we'd never see again.