Matthew Stafford’s Daughters Join Him as He Receives NFL MVP Award Award: A Guide to His Family
Matthew Stafford may not have made it to the 2026 Super Bowl, but he still received one of the biggest honors of the season when he was named MVP during the NFL Honors on February 5. The Los Angeles Rams quarterback was joined by his daughters as he took the stage to accept the honor.
To conclude his speech (here), he gave a shout-out to his “favorite people in the world,” namely, his wife, Kelly Stafford (née Hall), whom he married in 2015, and his “beautiful” daughters.”I’m so happy to be able to teach the blessings of this game to you guys,” Matthew said. “You’re unbelievable cheerleaders for me. I appreciate it. I’m so happy to have you at the games on the sidelines with me and I can’t wait for you to cheer me on next year when we’re kicking ass.”
Scroll down to learn about Matthew and Kelly’s relationship, kids, and more.
How many kids does Matthew Stafford have?
Matthew and Kelly are parents to four daughters. “They are my favorite part of life and it’s so cool to be able to have those moments with them before games, doing something that I love, that they have learned to love, and support me and our team,” Stafford said in a recent press conference. “It’s really fun to watch them blossom into the young ladies they are and the fans of football and their dad and all of the teammates.”
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The couple’s eldest children are twins Sawyer and Chandler, who were born on March 31, 2017. Next came another daughter, Hunter, on August 16, 2018, followed by the family’s youngest child, daughter Tyler, on June 26, 2020.
Did Matthew Stafford and his wife do IVF to conceive?
Yes, Kelly revealed she underwent in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive the twins. On the Give Them Lala podcast, she said she and Matthew were trying to conceive for a year and a half before trying IVF.
She shared a photo from the day of her egg retrieval in August 2018 and wrote, “2 years ago today, Matthew and I’s journey to parenthood began. We are so beyond grateful for the science behind IVF and what it has brought to our lives. For anyone going through through this, remember you aren’t alone and keep faith!!”
Since dealing with their own struggles to conceive, Matthew and Kelly have become advocates for others dealing with infertility. In March 2025, they attended an event for infertility awareness and Kelly wrote on Instagram, “Even though it’s been years since our own experience with infertility, it’s a community you belong to forever. 1 in 6 couples struggle to conceive but as a society we still have a long ways to go in raising awareness and having open conversations about it.”
Kelly is also on the board for Chosen Fertility Group.
How did Matthew Stafford meet his wife?
Matthew and Kelly met while they were students at the University of Georgia in 2006. He was on the football team, and she was a cheerleader.
“I fell for him very quickly,” Kelly said on the Absolutely Not podcast, adding that Matthew “wasn’t ready” for a relationship at the time. “We ended up finding each other again, but in the middle of that was a lot of chaos. A lot of back and forth, a lot of [a] love/hate situation.”
In a separate interview, Kelly revealed she dated the backup quarterback at UGA just to “piss [Matthew] off” before they became a couple. They went on their first date in February 2009, and after dating off-and-on for a bit of time, the two eventually settled into their relationship and married in 2015.
What does Matthew Stafford’s wife do for a living?
Kelly studied nursing at UGA and is a Registered Nurse, having passed her nursing exam in 2014. However, these days she is focused on raising her four children, while also hosting her podcast, The Morning After.
Per her Instagram bio, she is a health/beauty influencer. She has more than 400,000 followers and often shares a closer look at her family life on her page.
What kind of brain tumor did Matthew Stafford’s wife have?
In 2019, Kelly was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor that “develops on the main nerve leading from the inner ear to the brain,” per Mayo Clinic.
Kelly received her diagnosis after she began experiencing vertigo in January 2019. While her blood work initially came back fine, the continued vertigo spells led her to get an MRI, which ultimately showed the tumor on her brain.
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“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t completely terrified of brain surgery. I am,” she admitted at the time. “I am terrified of them opening my head, I’m terrified of losing my hearing, I’m terrified of losing facial function, I’m terrified of far worse things that could happen and I’m terrified that I won’t take the time I need to recover because the guilt I might feel of being absent from my kids for too long.. I am telling y’all this to ask for prayers and support.”
The WAG had her surgery in April 2019. She revealed in an Instagram post that her neurosurgeon noticed an “abnormal vein” in her brain. Luckily, he had “seen it before and written a paper on it.” Her six-hour surgery ended up taking 12 hours.
In a subsequent post, Kelly described her painful recovery, which included not being able to keep anything down, including her medicine.
