Taylor Bisciotti, Justin Herbert Rumored Ex-GF: Were They Dating?

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Taylor Bisciotti is rumored to have dated the Chargers QB.

With the number of high-profile sports-show business romances in the news lately, it has to be surprising when a highly-ranked NFL quarterback chooses to keep his personal dating life under wraps, as much as he can. But that appears to be the policy followed by Los Angeles Chargers signal-caller Justin Herbert, who in the NFL.com Quarterback Index released Wednesday is ranked No. 6, out of 32 starting QBs.

Herbert and the Chargers made a trip to São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday. That’s where they will open their 2025 season, facing their AFC West divisional rival the Kansas City Chiefs, who just happen to be the defending AFC champions and winners of three Super Bowls in the last six seasons. In fact, the Chiefs have played in the Super Bowl in five of those seasons.

The Chiefs-Chargers game will also be the only NFL game on Friday, and it streams for free on YouTube, which means that Herbert will occupy the spotlight in a way he rarely has with in his five seasons with Chargers, a team that has played just two playoff games and lost both since he was drafted in the first round, sixth overall, out of Oregon in 2020.

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Bur presumably Herbert is fine with the national spotlight being thrown on his football performances. But being out of the country gets him away from the media excitement over his private life, after he was spotted visiting pop star Madison Beer on the set of her latest video in Los Angeles, setting off rumors that the pair are now dating.

If Beer shows up in Brazil, the rumors would be effectively confirmed. But as private as he is, Herbert has reportedly had one previous relationship that ended sometime in the last few years. Even that romance has not been confirmed to have actually happened, though it was widely rumored by fans and in the press.

Herbert’s reported ex-girlfriend in NFL Network reporter Taylor Bisciotti, who is now 33 years old, six years older than the 27-year-old Herbert.

Why Herbert and Bisciotti Were Linked

Who is Bisciotti and when did she supposedly date Herbert? According to a report in the tabloid newspaper The Sun, “the couple were seen together multiple times in 2021,” but nothing was ever made “official” between them.

Were they actually dating? Despite the age difference, Herbert and Bisciotti definitely haven important interest in common that suggests they would make a compatible pair — football.

“I grew up in Atlanta, right in the middle of SEC country, so Saturdays were always a day for college football, and Sundays were for NFL football,” Bisciotti said in recent interview with the high-gloss magazine L’Officiel Fashion Book.

“I’ve always loved how sports bring people together. Sports teach us so many life lessons. Self-discipline, handling fear and failure, mental toughness, resilience, responsibility, teamwork, and learning to work with others applies to every part of life,” she said in the interview.

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But she did not mention, nor was she asked about, any relationship past or present with the Chargers quarterback.

More recently — presumably after Bisciotti but before Beer — Herbert was reported to be dating model and Instagram influencer Rylee Jean Kirk.

That rumor got started when fans noticed that the pair had begun following each other on their social media accounts. But there may have genuinely been nothing to the gossip because Kirk soon married professional motocross racer Austin Forkner.

Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering Japan Pro Baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. More about Jonathan Vankin