Who Is Kelly Stafford? Wife Of Rams Quarterback Matthew Stafford Draws Attention Ahead Of Super Bowl

The Super Bowl piques a lot of interest in players’ personal lives, and Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford is far from exempt from the rule. However, those hoping he might be cruising solo will be disappointed, as the 33-year-old is not only a married man but a proud #GirlDad as well.

Stafford has been married to his wife, Kelly, Stafford, since 2015, but the couple’s romance extends further back than that, to their college days. The pair met while both studying at the University of Georgia, where Stafford was the starting quarterback from 2006-2008. Then-Kelly Hall, his future wife was a cheerleader—and the sister of former NFL receiver Chad Hall.

The pair’s life in the NFL began in 2009 when Stafford was drafted by the Detroit Lions. The couple, who married in 2015, started their lives together there, which included welcoming their four daughters—twins Sawyer and Chandler, in April 2016, Hunter in August 2018 and Tyler in July 2020. They stayed in Detroit until Stafford was traded to the Rams in early 2021.

Of course, life was not always easy for the pair, as Kelly dealt with a health scare in 2019. That spring, she revealed she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor after noticing she was suffering from several bouts of vertigo.

“Within the last year. I began to notice things that I thought was just me getting older...I would show my girls how to do a front roll or twirl in ballet class and immediately feel dizzy & off balance...Things that I had been doing my entire life were now, all of a sudden, difficult,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.

She added that an MRI had found a tumor on some of her cranial nerves, which led to the pair deciding she would undergo brain surgery in order to take it out.

She has since been cleared and celebrated a clean two-year scan in April 2021.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic did bring some controversy to the couple, after Kelly initially blasted restrictions in Michigan in late 2020.

“I’m over living in a dictatorship that we call Michigan,” she said at the time. “I understand there’s a pandemic, and I understand it’s very scary. I’m scared of it, too. If you are at risk, do not leave your house until there’s a vaccine. But shutting down all these small businesses—things that people have worked their life for—shutting them down again is not the answer, because they will not make it. So once we are able to leave our house, once this dictatorship decides to let us have some freedom, there will be nothing left.”

She later issued an apology for the comments.