{"id":857000,"date":"2026-04-06T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:08:22","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-heiress-gracie-hunt-gets-engaged-to-ex-nfl-players-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857000\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt gets engaged to ex-NFL player&#8217;s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gracie Hunt is engaged to Derek Green, the youngest son of former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Trent Green.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL heiress, who is the daughter of billionaire Chiefs CEO\u00a0Clark Hunt, announced the exciting news in a sweet Instagram post on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always you,\u201d Gracie, 27, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/graciehunt\/p\/DWuptiZiXmd\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">alongside a series of pics<\/a> from Derek\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Gracie Hunt and Derek Green (pictured here together in February) are engaged after a year of dating. graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>The NFL heiress (seen here with her now-fianc\u00e9 last month) announced the engagement news in an Instagram post on Saturday. graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>The photos showed Derek, 26, down on one knee as he popped the question to his now-fianc\u00e9e beneath an outdoor altar decorated with white flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Another featured the happy couple kissing, while a third showed the NFL heiress\u2019s emerald-cut engagement ring, which was encrusted with white diamonds and a single emerald stone along the band.<\/p>\n<p>The carousel of photos also included some of the pair\u2019s family and friends filming the proposal and clapping in celebration after Gracie said \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gracie\u2019s mom, Tavia, took to her own Instagram over the weekend to celebrate her daughter and future son-in-law\u2019s engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The photos showed Derek (pictured here with Gracie last month) down on one knee as he popped the question beneath an outdoor altar. graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Gracie is the daughter of billionaire Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt (seen here with his wife, Tavia, and Gracie and Derek last month).  graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting another SON!!\u201d the 54-year-old wrote on her\u00a0Instagram Stories. \u201cGracie Green has a nice ring to it!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tavia and Clark share daughters Gracie and Ava, 21, as well as a 23-year-old son, Knobel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForever looks so beautiful on these two,\u201d Gracie\u2019s mom continued. \u201cGod brought these two together in such a special way, and our hearts are overflowing with joy \u2026 We are so grateful for His hand in their lives and so excited for all that lies ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gracie and Derek (pictured here together in February 2026) started dating in April 2025. graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Gracie (seen here with her parents and Derek in February) took to social media in July 2025 to say that she and Derek have been \u201cfriends since 2017.\u201d graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Gracie <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/04\/07\/celebrity-news\/chiefs-heiress-gracie-hunt-teases-new-romance-with-taylor-swift-lyric\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first teased her and Derek\u2019s relationship<\/a> in a since-deleted Instagram video of them together at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter meeting 7.5 years ago in this place\u2026 all along there was some invisible string,\u201d she captioned the clip while <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/02\/10\/style\/kansas-city-chiefs-heiress-gracie-hunt-reveals-how-she-picked-out-taylor-swifts-pricey-gift-and-travis-kelces-involvement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quoting Taylor Swift\u2019s song \u201cInvisible String\u201d<\/a> from the pop star\u2019s album \u201cFolklore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, both 36, are also engaged. Kelce <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/26\/celebrity-news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-engaged-after-2-years-of-dating\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked the \u201cFate of Ophelia\u201d hitmaker to marry him<\/a> in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Gracie, meanwhile, returned to social media in July of last year to reveal that she and her now-fianc\u00e9 have been \u201cfriends since 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter meeting 7.5 years ago in this place\u2026 all along there was some invisible string,\u201d Gracie (pictured here with Derek in February) teased in an Instagram post last year. graciehunt\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Gracie also included several nods to Taylor Swift (seen here together during a Chiefs game in December 2023) in her social media posts about Derek. Gracie Hunt\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m dating my best friend,\u201d Gracie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DMLqwj4O7PW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote in the Instagram post<\/a> with Swift\u2019s \u201cYou Belong With Me\u201d playing in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Before dating Derek, Gracie was with real estate broker Cody Keith. <\/p>\n<p>Keith wasn\u2019t seen at the NFL heiress\u2019s 26th birthday party in March 2025, nor in attendance <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/02\/08\/style\/gracie-hunt-reveals-beauty-secrets-ahead-of-super-bowl-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for the Chiefs\u2019 2025 Super Bowl loss<\/a> against the Philadelphia Eagles that February.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gracie Hunt is engaged to Derek Green, the youngest son of former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Trent Green.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[6586,59497,439,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-857000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-celebrity-couples","9":"tag-celebrity-engagements","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascitychiefs","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116358395079559915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}