How did Jonathan Owens meet Simone Biles?

Jonathan Owens and Simone Biles officially tied the knot on April 22, 2023.


How did Jonathan Owens meet Simone Biles?

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens at their wedding (Image via Rachel Taylor Photography)

Jonathan Owens and Simone Biles are married! The couple officially tied the knot on April 22, 2023, at a courthouse wedding in Texas. The Houston Texans defensive back and the Olympic gymnast got married after dating for nearly 3 years.

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Owens is an American football player who plays as a defensive back for the Houston Texans in the NFL. He initially signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent following the 2018 NFL Draft, but he was waived by the franchise without ever playing a snap for them due to an injury.

In 2019, Jonathan Owens signed to the Texans practice squad. Thanks to his hard work and dedication, Owens managed to get a reserve/future contract with the Houston-based franchise in 2020.

In 2020, Owens played 6 games for the Texans, primarily on special teams. A year later, the 5’11” defensive back started 2 games and played 36% of the total snap counts with the Texans. Finally, 2022 became the year for the 27-year-old as he got to start all 17 games for the Texans as a defensive back where he played 83% of the team’s total snaps and registered one sack and 125 total tackles.

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Houston has been a big place for Owens’ career and his personal life since it is where he first met his future wife, Simone Biles. In this article, we’ll take a look at how Jonathan Owens met the famed gymnast Simone Biles.

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Jonathan Owens and Simone Biles met back in 2020

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In 2019, the Houston native gymnast Simone Biles was invited to lead the Houston Texans out of the Tunnel. When she did that, a then-Texans practice squad player could be seen in the background of the photos from that day. But that’s not how they met.

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens met how most couples meet nowadays. The couple met via the dating app Raya back in March 2020 and it was Biles who slid into the DMs of the Texans’ defensive back.

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“He would say I slid into his DMs,” Biles told the Wall Street Journal“I saw him and I was like, ‘Oh, he’s pretty cute,’ so I said hi … and then I saw that he was in the Houston area, so we started chatting a little bit, and then we went to hang out a week or two later.” The couple started to date at the beginning of the Covid pandemic and had a lot of free time to spend together.

Biles and Owens dated for 2 years before getting engaged

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Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens dated for nearly 2 years before getting engaged in February 2022. The couple announced their engagement on Instagram a day after Valentine’s Day with the caption “THE EASIEST YES, I can’t wait to spend forever & ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more! let’s get married, FIANCÉ.”

And now, more than a year after their engagement, the couple has officially tied the knot.

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