{"id":13015,"date":"2025-07-16T01:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13015\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:32:04","slug":"lions-qb-jared-goff-announces-child-with-wife-christen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13015\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions QB Jared Goff announces child with wife, Christen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to fatherhood, <a data-player-guid=\"987f4f39-ed6f-5915-57eb-ec7dc356171c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3046779\/jared-goff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Goff<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56caffee-178d-f6f2-a076-b277486b8c32\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a> quarterback and his wife, Christen Harper, announced the birth of their daughter, Romy Isabelle Goff, on a joint Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>In February, at the NFL Honors ceremony, the couple revealed they were expecting, where he expressed his excitement about becoming a parent alongside Harper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to becoming a dad,&#8221; Goff said to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jared-goff-and-christen-harper-are-expecting-their-first-baby-exclusive-8787529\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re just excited to enjoy this special time together and just soak up every second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it&#8217;ll add a new perspective to life, and it&#8217;ll be great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goff and Harper have been dating since 2019, before getting engaged in June 2022. They got married in June 2024 in California.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 season, Goff helped the Lions finish the regular season with a share of the best record in the league &#8212; tied with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f68f2343-8ceb-7a02-740d-af6338be21d2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> &#8212; with a record of 15-2. Detroit earned the top seed in the 2024 NFL playoffs before being upset by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fbeaf73e-6d6c-cca4-0809-713d9d741f90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-commanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Commanders<\/a> in the NFC Divisional round, 45-31.<\/p>\n<p>Goff was second in the league in passing yards, throwing 4,629 yards behind Joe Burrow&#8217;s 4,918. He also threw 37 touchdowns with a 68.4 QBR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to fatherhood, Jared Goff! On Tuesday, the Detroit Lions quarterback and his wife, Christen Harper, announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-13015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}