Josh Allen has reflected on a whirlwind 2025 in which he married his ‘best friend’ Hailee Steinfeld and cemented himself as one of the richest players in the NFL.

The Buffalo Bills quarterback has had an incredible few months both on and off the field. Back in February, he was named the NFL’s MVP and rewarded with a new $330million contract.

That deal included an NFL-record $250million in guaranteed money. Then in May, Allen married actress and singer Steinfeld in a sunset ceremony in Santa Barbara.

It marks a remarkable rise for a player who grew up on a farm in a city of 8,000 people outside Fresno, California.

When asked what a 12-year-old Josh Allen would think about all he has achieved, the quarterback told NFL Network: ‘Pretty cool’ 

‘I got to marry the woman of my dreams, my best friend, and I get to play football for a living. That’s my favorite thing to do,’ he said.

Josh Allen has reflected on a whirlwind 2025 in which he married ‘best friend’ Hailee Steinfeld

In February, he was named the NFL’s MVP and rewarded with a new $330million contract

In May, Allen married actress and singer Steinfeld in a sunset ceremony in Santa Barbara 

‘Then in the offseason I get to hang out with my family and golf a little bit. So it’s not too bad.’ 

Allen and Steinfeld have busy careers in football and showbusiness, respectively, and the quarterback lifted the lid on how they make time for each other.

‘I just feel like every other married couple – you sit down and pull out a calendar and go at it then,’ he told the Bills YouTube channel.

Crews from HBO’s Hard Knocks are currently in training camp with the Bills ahead of the new season. It has added another layer of complexity to preseason and Allen admitted it is not easy to maintain normalcy when surrounded by cameras.

‘It’s a little tough – (but) there are no hidden cameras, there are no tricks they’re trying to pull on us,’ he said. 

‘You know exactly when you’re being recorded and where the cameras are, who’s mic’d up… so we just have to continue to try to be ourselves and not let it affect us in a negative way because that’s not going to help us. So we have to continue being us.’