There’s no longer any doubt about it: San Francisco 49ers lineman Nick Bosa is taken.
Bosa, 28, and his girlfriend, model Ella Ailiff, hard launched their relationship on Sunday, November 30, posting a video via Bosa’s TikTok account that showed the two getting cozy and sharing a couple kisses while sipping espresso.
“Coffee and football Sunday,” Bosa captioned the video.
The video comes on the heels of speculation that Bosa was dating singer Megan Moroney. The rumors started when Moroney, 28, watched a 49ers game in September from a private suite in Levi’s Stadium. Fans noticed around the same time that Moroney and Bosa were following each other on Instagram.
Moroney, however, shut down the speculation in a November interview with People.
“I’m not dating right now at all,” she told the outlet. “I’m too busy.”
Bosa, for his part, is recovering from a torn ACL that has kept him sidelined since Week 3 of the NFL season. Out of the public eye, it has left plenty of questions about his love life unanswered. Those questions escalated over the past week when a mystery woman began to show up on his TikTok page.
The former NFL Defensive Player of the Year launched his TikTok in early November to chronicle his so-called “coffee journey.” The videos, which show him making and sampling various coffees, started to include a woman whose face remained obscured until his post on Sunday.
In the two previous posts, a shirtless Bosa could be seen hugging and kissing the woman, whose face stays mostly away from the camera.
Ailiff’s face was finally revealed on Sunday, and her account is now the only one that Bosa follows. A model and influencer, Ailiff boasts more than 140,000 followers and is the founder of her own matcha brand, Bella Blue Matcha.
Ailiff is not the first model that Bosa has dated. He was previously in a relationship with Jenna Berman, from 2020 to late 2022, when Berman appeared to announce their split via TikTok.
“When he gives you the silent treatment but doesn’t know you can play that game 10x better. Bye forever,” she wrote in the caption, as the video showed her blowing a kiss to the camera.
Bosa then began dating Lauren Maenner, also a model, in 2023 and the two still appeared to be together as of earlier this year.
A Philadelphia native, Maenner grew up cheering for the hometown Eagles. When she began attending 49ers games to support Bosa during the 2023 season, she shared photos of herself on the sideline in Bosa’s No. 97 jersey, captioned, “Haha this is awkward.”
Though Bosa’s personal life occasionally breaks through to the Niners’ fanbase, the former Ohio State Buckeye prefers to keep things low-key. As San Francisco was preparing for the NFL Playoffs in 2023, he joked to the media that he has “been a hermit for quite some time.”
“I sit on my couch, I fill my Game Ready machine with ice, and I prop my legs up and watch some shows,” he added. “And then I go to bed at 8:30, and I wake up and get to work.”
