When Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow went down with a toe injury early in the 2025 season, his backup, Jake Browning, was thrust into the NFL spotlight.

And with his promotion came even more attention on his fiancée, Stephanie Niles.

The two met in their undergraduate days at the University of Washington where Browning was the 2016 Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year. Through graduation, career changes and long-distance struggles, their relationship has endured, with the pair getting engaged in 2024.

“Remember when we agreed we weren’t going to date?” Browning recalled in an Instagram post in 2023. “Or when we finally started dating we agreed we were going to break up when you moved to NYC in 2018?”

“Five years, four different time zones and 14 different moves later, here we

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