When Joe Burrow suffered a toe injury at the start of the 2025 season, backup quarterback Jake Browning suddenly became the face of Cincinnati’s offense. And as his profile grew, so did the spotlight on his fiancée, Stephanie Niles .

The two go all the way back to their days at the University of Washington, where Browning was named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year in 2016. What began as a hesitant connection eventually turned into something lasting. Browning once joked in a 2023 Instagram post about the early days of their relationship: “Remember when we agreed we weren’t going to date? Or when we finally started dating we agreed we were going to break up when you moved to NYC in 2018?”

Despite the distance and career shifts that followed, the couple stayed together and mad

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