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.