Josh Allen’s newest kneel-down had nothing to do with soccer.
The Buffalo Payments quarterback and actor Hailee Steinfeld posted a photograph to their Instagram followers on Friday — 20.3 million for Steinfeld and a mere 1.3 million for Allen — of Allen on one knee proposing marriage. The image was taken on a grassy ridge overlooking water, with the couple surrounded by candles and framed by a big arch coated in flowers.
The NFL reposted the image on X to congratulate the pair on their engagement, with a message ending with a hoop and coronary heart emoji.
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The setting was possible someplace on the California shoreline, the place Allen lives within the offseason. And the proposal possible occurred someday final week, when the Payments had a bye.
Allen did not reveal the engagement throughout his weekly information convention on Wednesday because the AFC East-leading Payments (9-2) put together to host the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night time. However he did smile broadly when requested how he loved his bye week.
“Implausible. It was nice. Obtained some solar. Frolicked with household. It was improbable,” he mentioned.
Allen and Steinfeld have been first linked within the spring of 2023 once they have been photographed eating collectively in New York Metropolis. Months later, Allen acknowledged the 2 have been relationship, however requested The Related Press to not point out Steinfeld by title in a bid to keep up a semblance of privateness.
Steinfeld has since begun attending Payments house video games, and the couple hosted a Halloween social gathering this fall.
The 27-year-old Steinfeld is from Los Angeles and started her appearing profession at age 10. She earned an Oscar nomination for finest supporting actress for her position as Mattie Ross within the Coen brothers’ 2010 remake of “True Grit.” She additionally obtained a Golden Globe nomination for her efficiency within the 2016 highschool dramedy “The Fringe of Seventeen.” Her different credit embrace “Bumblebee,” “Dickinson” and Marvel’s “Hawkeye,” together with voice roles in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and its sequel.
Steinfeld branched out into pop music after performing in 2015’s “Pitch Good 2.” She has launched quite a few singles and two EPs, together with “Half Written Story” in 2020.
The 28-year-old Allen has change into one of many NFL’s finest quarterbacks and set lots of Buffalo’s single-season and profession passing and scoring data since being chosen within the first spherical of the 2018 draft out of Wyoming.
