How Patrick Mahomes Scored the Perfect Teammate in Fiancée Brittany Matthews

Sometimes the high school QB and his cheerleader girlfriend end up together. Rarely do they become one of sports’ biggest power couples, but such is the tale of Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews. Fair to say that Patrick Mahomes doesn’t really half-ass anything.

Madly in love, as evidenced by the number of times they used social media to brag on one another’s accomplishments, the teens truly thought they had what it took to go the distance. Never mind that he was set to lead the Texas Tech University Red Raiders, some 450 miles from where she was already playing soccer at the University of Texas-Tyler.

 

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“This boy has my whole heart!” she explained in one November 2013 snap. “So freaking proud of you! I love you so much!” Some seven months after the Kansas City Chiefs QB snagged his (perhaps, first) world championship, he turned up at Arrowhead Stadium to get his ring and give away another.

“On a day that was meant to celebrate you, you turned it into celebrating us,” Matthews proclaimed of the Sept. 1 proposal that saw him upgrading his teenage machinations to a plan more befitting his status as the NFL’s new wunderkind.

After welcoming baby girl Sterling Skye Mahomes Feb. 21, the couple have put a pin in wedding planning (and not to mention that whole global pandemic thing making guests lists extra tricky). But their future has been set for the better part of a decade.

Toasting to “a lifetime” with him on their seventh anniversary in March 2019, a full year and a half before their engagement, Matthews addressed those concerned about the speed at which they were making their way down the aisle. “To everyone that’s gonna ask when we are getting married,” she said, “the answer is whenever we want.”

And while Mahomes has been putting together championship seasons, becoming the youngest Super Bowl MVP, signing record-breaking multimillion-dollar contracts and snapping up baseball teams, Matthews has been making her own money moves, joining an ownership group that’s bringing a professional women’s soccer team to the area.

“I have a true level of appreciation for what these incredible women do on a daily basis,” she said in a statement. “We have the greatest fans and community here in KC and I can’t wait to huddle around this team.”

With their careers cemented, the two had already put down roots in Kansas City’s upscale Mission Hills neighborhood back in 2019, their nearly $2 million, three-bedroom spread “the first home that either of us have ever owned,” Mahomes shared in a Bleacher Report video. “Renting a house wasn’t for us, we wanted our own place.”

And as they face what might be their most challenging job yet, they’re each confident they’ve found the right teammate to tackle it with.

Noting the “negativity and hate” that the stressors of 2020 brought out in a New Year’s post, Matthews shared that navigating it alongside her love of nearly nine years “made things a little easier.” No matter the situation they find themselves in, she continued, “He’s my better half and just the greatest.”