The removal of the professional football players will cause the correlation, and consequently r2 to become closer to 0 due to the fact that the high school athletes tend to show no association between the number of energy drinks consumed and the number of pull ups that can be done. The slope of the regression line will also be nearly 0 without the professional football players. The standard deviation of the residuals, however, will increase without the presence of the professional football players because the remaining scatter about the new regression line will be greater due to the loss of the 4 professional football players which all had small residuals.
