Former NFL Quarterback Philip Rivers and Wife Expecting Their 10th Child

Former Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers had plenty of professional accomplishments during his 17-season NFL career. Having retired after one final 2020 season with the Indianapolis Colts, however, the 41-year-old is now hitting a milestone off the field, as he and his wife Tiffany are about to welcome their 10th child together.

The couple, who were high school sweethearts, are already proud parents to nine children, seven girls and two boys, between the ages of four and 21.

Now spending his NFL retirement as a high school football coach at St. Michael Catholic in Fairhope, AL, Rivers shared the news with AL.com. And with seven girls already in the family, he said that everyone is pulling for another boy.

"We’ve had one pretty much every two years and now this is the longest gap," Rivers explained. “We are all fired up. Everyone was pulling for a boy. Even our girls wanted a boy."

Rivers ranks sixth in top 10 NFL passing yards, with more than 63,000 yards passed throughout his NFL career. But the birth of his 10th child in October will break a family record, as both his mother and father came from families of nine children.

"We thought we would be the third generation of nine, but we decided to go double digits," he continued. "Or I should say we didn’t decide it. God decided."

"We are still kind of figuring that out,” he added, when asked about a name for the new baby. "We have plenty of opinions. That is what we’ve got right now."

Before taking over as coach, St. Michael had just won five total games since the team started in 2017. But after his first two seasons as coach, Rivers brought that up to 11–8. And this upcoming season his older son Gunner will be following in his father's footsteps as the starting quarterback for St. Michael.

It will certainly be a big year for the Rivers family.