In a season filled with lucky breaks for the Kansas City Chiefs, quarterback Patrick Mahomes received another one on the homefront.
Mahomes, 29, revealed his wife, Brittany Mahomes, is due to give birth to the couple’s third baby on Sunday, January 12, during Kansas City’s playoff bye week.
“He told me his wife Brittany is due to give birth to their 3rd child on Sunday. If she doesn’t give birth by then she will be induced Monday,” CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson shared via X on Monday, January 6.
The timing is fortuitous because the Chiefs have earned the No. 1 overall seed in the AFC and a first-round bye in the playoffs, meaning they won’t begin their playoff quest until the weekend of January 18.
Wolfson, 49, added, “There was def extra motivation for Patrick to get that bye week! 😜.”
Patrick and Brittany — who got married in March 2022 — already share daughter Sterling, 3, and son Bronze, 2. In July 2024, they revealed their third baby will be a girl.
In an interview with Kay Adams that aired during Netflix’s coverage of the Chiefs’ Christmas Day game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Patrick said the new addition would be arriving “any day now.”
“Brittany says I’ve been stressing her out too much this season,” Mahomes told Adams, 38, in the sit-down chat. “So I got to try to not put so much stress on her through these football games.”
He added, “Hopefully God works the right way and we can have that baby on the bye week somewhere, and then everything will work out perfectly.”
After the Christmas Day win over the Steelers, which earned the Chiefs the first-round bye, Patrick gushed about the importance of the victory.
“I told my pregnant wife I was gonna get the No. 1 seed so we can go have that baby,” he said in his postgame interview.
Brittany responded to the interview via her Instagram Story from home, where she was watching the game.
“Always keeping his promises,” Brittany wrote.
Patrick and Brittany, 29, announced they are expecting their third baby with a joint Instagram post in July of last year.
“Round three, here we come 🤍,” the post read, which featured a video of Sterling showing off a sonogram of her soon-to-be sister for the camera.
The Chiefs quest for a historic third-consecutive Super Bowl will start on either Saturday, January 18, or Sunday, January 19. Their opponent will be decided by the winners of the Wild Card weekend games, which kick off Saturday, January 11.
