Josh Allen opened up about fatherhood, Hailee Steinfeld (Getty Images)
Josh Allen is entering the 2026 NFL season as a different man. Josh Allen addressed it plainly when speaking to People ahead of the Bills’ Week 1 opener against the Houston Texans. The piece, depending on variation, runs anywhere between $120,000 and north of $900,000.
Because his arm strength improved or his reads got sharper, but because a few months ago, his wife Hailee Steinfeld had a baby girl named Harper Haize, not. Allen has won the league MVP, reached Super Bowls and carried Buffalo for years on personal drive and natural talent. He also revealed that he bought himself a Patek Philippe Pilot Alarm in rose gold to mark Harper’s birth.
“I’ve said this in a few different interviews in Buffalo, of why my ‘why’ has changed and why I’m doing this, and it’s not a personal ‘why’ anymore,” he said. “The most important to me… in my wallet, I always keep two Polaroids — now two, it used to always be one,” Allen said. “And hopefully, at some point, that watch will be hers,” he said.
The Buffalo Bills quarterback will be the first to tell you that his reasons for playing football have fundamentally shifted. And if opposing defenses weren’t already worried about Allen, they probably should be now. “It’s to show this little daughter that me and my wife are trying to raise how hard you need to work to accomplish something so great, so, I don’t think that the approach changes, but the why behind it does. ” That distinction matters more than it sounds. But athletes who find a deeper sense of purpose outside themselves often find another gear. The approach stays the same. The fire burns differently. “I’m not going to show you these. It’s my wife and my baby. Had a baby a few months ago. A watch he plans to get engraved with her birthdate.