BREAKING: Tyler Shough Announces Divorce from Wife Jordan, Citing ‘Irreconcilable Demands of NFL Life and Fatherhood’
NEW ORLEANS, LA – In a statement released through his agent early Thursday morning, New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough announced that he and his wife, Jordan Wormdahl Shough, have filed for divorce after two years of marriage.
The filing, which Shough described as “mutual but deeply painful,” reportedly came just weeks after the couple welcomed their first child, a son, in February 2026.
According to sources close to the couple, the decision was driven not by infidelity or scandal, but by what Shough called in the statement “the impossible math of an NFL quarterback’s schedule against the very real needs of a new marriage and a newborn.”
“Jordan has given everything — she followed me from Oregon to Texas Tech to Louisville to New Orleans,” the statement reads. “But the truth is, I’ve been married to football since I was 18, and that hasn’t left enough of me for her or for Grayson.”
Friends say the straw that broke the marriage was the 2026 offseason. With Shough preparing for his first full season as the Saints’ franchise QB, training camp demands escalated just as Jordan was recovering from childbirth while managing intense postpartum anxiety away from her family in California.
“She needed a husband who could be home at 5 p.m.,” one source said. “He literally cannot do that. And instead of dragging it out for five miserable years, they chose to stop now while they can still be good co-parents.”
The couple has requested privacy. Shough is expected to speak publicly after Sunday’s team-organized OTAs.
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