Despite missing part of training camp, Simone Biles’ husband’s job with the Chicago Bears has been secured.
Safety Jonathan Owens officially joined the Bears’ 53-man roster Tuesday afternoon. While that may not have come as a surprise, Owens’ training camp has been unlike anyone else in the league this summer.
Owens left mid-camp to watch his wife compete at the Paris Olympics. Biles won three gold medals and a silver in France, bringing her career-high to 11 Olympic medals. She is now the most decorated gymnast of all time and one of the greatest Olympians of all time.
As the Bears prepared for the season, Owens watched Biles’ games in person — something he negotiated with the team when he signed. And the Bears were all for it. The team gave him tapes of meetings, practices and routines while he was in Paris. He said they were incredibly supportive the entire way. Many even urged him to bring back souvenirs.
“That’s a big deal, him supporting the one he loves the most,” Bears head coach Matt Eberflus said before the Olympics. “I think it’s so cool that he gets to do that and we applaud him for it and it’s going to be awesome.
Owens signed a two-year, $4.75 million contract with the Bears this offseason. He had 84 total tackles and recovered a fumble last season with the Green Bay Packers. The 29-year-old got his start with the Houston Texans, where he spent four seasons and first met Biles, who works out of a Houston-area gym. The couple first got engaged in 2022, ahead of his final season with the team, which was his first as a true starter in the league.
It’s unclear whether Biles will attempt to play in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, where she will be 31. But in the meantime, it’s safe to assume Biles will be in the stands for at least a few Bears games this fall.
“I just think, ‘How did I get so lucky that this is my wife and I get to see her?'” Owens said of Biles before the Olympics. “Someone who is literally at the pinnacle of her sport and I get to call her [her] my wife.
