Simone Biles usually makes more headlines during the Summer Olympics than the Winter Olympics, but she made some noise on Tuesday morning.
Biles, the 24-year-old widely regarded to be the greatest gymnast of all time, announced her engagement on social media. Her boyfriend, Texans safety Jonathan Owens, proposed to her, and she said yes.
WOKE UP A FIANCÉE 💍💍😭
I can’t wait to spend forever & ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more! let’s get married! 🕊🤎@jjowens_3 pic.twitter.com/BcrWvhEE38
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) February 15, 2022
“The easiest yes,” Biles wrote in a caption on her official Instagram page. “I can’t wait to spend forever and ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more!”
Owens responded to the post in a comment, “Ready for forever with you.”
Biles and Owens will be one of the biggest power couples in sports moving forward. After all, Biles has seven Olympic medals (four gold) to her name and went nearly eight years without losing an all-around competition from 2013 through 2021.
But who exactly is Jonathan Owens? Here’s what to know about Biles’ fiancé and his athletic career.
Who is Simone Biles engaged to?
Biles is engaged to Jonathan Owens, a safety for the Texans.
Owens, 26, played college football at Missouri Western, a Division II school, and entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He spent his first season on the Cardinals’ injured reserve and failed to make the team in 2019.
The Texans claimed Owens off waivers in 2019 but he barely played for them until 2021. He saw action in seven games during the 2021 season and made the first two starts of his NFL career.
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Jonathan Owens stats
Owens has dressed for 14 total NFL games during his career. During his first two seasons, Owens played 11 defensive snaps and 97 special teams snaps. As such, he didn’t produce any counting stats during those seasons.
During the 2021 NFL season, Owens posted career-highs in each stat category, as he played 168 defensive snaps and 85 special teams snaps.
Below are Owens’ stats and appearances during his first three NFL seasons.
| Season | Games | Starts | Tackles | Interceptions | Pass defenses |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
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Jonathan Owens contract
Owens spent most of the 2021 NFL season on Houston’s practice squad, so he made a bit less than the veteran minimum in 2021.
However, late in the season, Owens signed a one-year contract extension to remain with the Texans in 2022. So, Owens is currently on a one-year, $910,000 deal, which includes $15K in signing and workout bonuses.
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How long have Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens been dating?
Biles and Owens have been dating since just before the COVID-19 pandemic began. They met on a dating app in March of 2020 and dated for nearly two years before their engagement.
“We ended up hanging out right before the pandemic,” Owens told Texas Monthly in June of 2021. “It was one of the few times in her life where everything was just shut off and she couldn’t do anything. So we used it to get to know each other—really get to know each other. It created our bond and made it stronger. Now I’m so thankful.”
Owens admitted that he didn’t know who Biles was when they first started dating. That ended up being a blessing in disguise.
“I just hadn’t heard of her,” he said. “When I told her that, that’s one of the things she liked.”
The two grew close the more time they spent together. They officially announced that they were a couple in an Instagram post in August of 2020.
Their relationship has continued to grow leading up to their engagement in February of 2022.
“This was a match made in heaven,” Owens said. “There’s no better person for me. She loves me, she’s so affectionate. I just love that. And it’s just intoxicating seeing how much work she puts into everything.”