Is Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff married? Indeed he is! The 2016 first-overall pick was proposed to Christen Harper in the summer of 2022 while on vacation in Mexico. After an almost two-year engagement, the couple said their vows in Ojai, Calif., on June 22, 2024, with their closest family and friends. Goff donned a classic black tux and bow tie while Harper adorned a strapless white gown and veil.
Who Is Christen Harper?
Harper is best known for being co-winner of the SI Swimsuit 2022 Rookie of the Year after being one of the winners of SI’s annual Swim Search in 2021. She also appeared in the 2022 SI Swimsuit Issue. But people also likely know her for her viral reaction to Goff’s first win as a Lion.
SI shared a video of Harper, doing a photo shoot at the time, finding out that Goff had thrown a game-winning touchdown pass to Amon-Ra St. Brown for the Lions’ first win in 2021, breaking the team’s 15-game losing streak dating back to Week 14 of the previous season.
Christen Harper was with @SI_Swimsuit when she learned that boyfriend Jared Goff threw a game-winning touchdown for the Lions' first win
Her reaction is everything ❤️ pic.twitter.com/1uxdlSimVD
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) December 6, 2021
Let’s just say the Lions have turned a corner since Goff’s first season in Detroit. The couple has surely celebrated the return of Lions football, nearly making it to the city’s first Super Bowl in 2023. Goff will be looking to add another important ring to his life in 2024 while also avenging his 2018 Super Bowl loss and bringing a Lombardi Trophy to Detroit for the first time in franchise history.
Harper grew up in California like Goff (Goff is from Novato, while Harper was born in Valencia). She’s familiar with sports as her older brother, Shane, played a handful of games for the NHL’s Florida Panthers after spending most of his career in the AHL and ECHL. He has since jumped around to other leagues as well.
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She also appeared on “Women of the League,” hosted by Josie Leinart, the wife of former NFL quarterback Matt Leinart. The six-episode series aired toward the end of the 2022 season and stars four partners of NFL players, including Harper and Whitney Risner, wife of Minnesota Vikings guard Dalton Risner.
The SI Swimsuit model also has quite the following on social media platforms, with nearly 533,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 195,000 and 2.2 million likes on TikTok. She’s very transparent and honest about her relationship with Goff and has a few funny posts about the quarterback.
How Did Jared Goff Meet Christen Harper?
Harper revealed that the married couple first met on the celebrity dating app Raya back in 2019. She even went as far as to say that she sent the first message.
JARED GOFF IS A MARRIED MAN.
CONGRATULATIONS TO QB1 🥹❤️#OnePride pic.twitter.com/0R7AXCUBOd
— 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔦𝔱 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 📰 (@the_det_times) June 24, 2024
The couple made their first public appearance at the ESPYs in 2019. Harper followed Goff to Detriot after the Los Angeles Rams traded him in 2021. She took the leap of faith to leave what she’s always known, and it worked out for the best as the couple got engaged the year after the move.
“We’ve always been in California, so there was an excitement to a fresh start, but at the same time, my whole career has been in L.A., and I did not know what it was going to look like moving away from that,” Harper told the New York Post.