ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen’s newest kneel-down had nothing to do with soccer.
The Buffalo Bills 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 lined 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.
The setting was doubtless someplace on the California shoreline, the place Allen lives within the offseason. And the proposal doubtless occurred someday final week, when the Bills had a bye.
Allen didn’t reveal the engagement throughout his weekly information convention on Wednesday because the AFC East-leading Bills (9-2) put together to host the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday evening. But he did smile extensively when requested how he loved his bye week.
“Fantastic. It was nice. Got some solar. Hung out with household. It was incredible,” he mentioned.
Allen and Steinfeld have been first linked within the spring of 2023, after they have been photographed eating collectively in New York City. Months later, Allen acknowledged the 2 have been relationship, however requested The Associated Press to not point out Steinfeld by identify in a bid to keep up a semblance of privateness.
Steinfeld has since begun attending Bills residence video games, and the couple hosted a Halloween occasion this fall.
The 27-year-old Steinfeld is from Los Angeles and commenced her appearing profession at age 10. She earned an Oscar nomination for greatest supporting actress for her function as Mattie Ross within the Coen brothers’ 2010 remake of “True Grit.” She additionally acquired a Golden Globe nomination for her efficiency within the 2016 highschool dramedy “The Edge of Seventeen.” Her different credit embody “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 Perfect 2.” She has launched quite a few singles and two EPs, together with “Half Written Story” in 2020.
The 28-year-old Allen has turn into one of many NFL’s greatest quarterbacks and set a lot 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.
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