Sean Payton’s 2 Kids: All About the Denver Broncos Coach’s Daughter Meghan and Son Connor

Mar. 15, 2025

Sean Payton with his kids Meghan Payton and Connor Payton at a New Orleans Saints football game at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.Photo:Meghan Payton/ Instagram

Meghan Payton/ Instagram

Sean Paytonbalances his life on the field with his role as a dad to kids Meghan and Connor.

Payton began his NFL coaching career in 1997 as a quarterback coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. After successful tenures with the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys, Payton got his first head coaching opportunity, helming the New Orleans Saints. He secured his legacy in the city after leading the team to their first Super Bowl win in 2009.

Outside of football, Payton is a father to his daughter Meghan and son Connor. Over the years, they’ve been alongside him through his career highs and lows, building their own lives while sharing his love for sports. Meghan has pursued a career in media, while Connor is working toward a job in an NFL front office.

Payton enjoyed downtime with his family, including his wifeSkylene Montgomery, before making a comeback in 2023 with the Denver Broncos.

Here’s everything to know about Sean Payton’s kids: Meghan and Connor.

Meghan Payton, 28

Sean Payton with his children Meghan Payton and Connor Payton at the 2022 Fiesta Bowl between the TCU Horned Frogs and Michigan Wolverines at State Farm Stadium on December 31, 2022 in Glendale, Arizona.Meghan Payton/ Instagram

Payton and his first wife, Beth Shuey, welcomed their daughter Meghan Payton in 1997.

As Payton’s career took him to different places across the United States for work, Meghan followed along. She moved to Louisiana, with her family when her father accepted the New Orleans Saints head coaching job in 2006. Meghan later relocated to California when she enrolled at Pepperdine University in 2015.

The significant life event brought up mixed emotions for Payton, who described the bittersweet experience of setting up her dorm.

“A good part of the day was spent at Walmart, and I would say storage and space and organization were at a premium,”he joked to reporters. “So whether it was finding shelving for a television set … just doing normal dad stuff. Kind of a lump-in-your-throat type day, too, when you leave. But I’m excited for her.”

At Pepperdine, Meghan studiedsports journalism and media production, which opened doors to an internship with the NFL’s rotational program. One assignment took a personal turn in 2016 when she interviewed her father forNFL Network’sTotal Access.

Meghan Payton, daughter of football coach Sean Payton, poses for a photo.Meghan Payton/ Instagram

Reflecting on the experience, Meghan admitted it was more challenging than expected.

“It was harder to interview my dad than I thought it would be because with someone so close to you, you already know a lot about them,” she explained in an interview with theGALvanize mentorship programin 2016.

When she got a chance to work the sidelines of her first NFL game, the proud dad shared the footage with family and friends and offered some feedback of his own. He also opened up about seeing his daughter in action.

“There’s nothing like it as a parent when you get a chance to see … they’re growing up and all of a sudden they’re in this role,”he told KLFYin 2018. “When we moved here, she was 9 or 10 years old, and now she’s doing sideline reporting.”

In June 2023,Meghan marriedwriter and actor Chris Titone. Titone helpedproduce the script forHome Team, a film about Payton’s time coaching Connor’s sixth-grade football team during his 2012 NFL suspension. The idea came from Meghan and asegment she producedfor the NFL Network.

Connor Payton, 25

Meghan Payton and Connor Payton sit with their father Sean Payton.Meghan Payton/ Instagram

Payton and Shuey welcomed their son Connor Payton in 2000.

With his dad still coaching the Saints in New Orleans, Connor and Meghan commuted on weekends from Texas to spend time with him. But in 2012, an unexpected turn allowed the father and son to connect in a new way.

Payton’s NFL suspensionin the“Bountygate” scandal— in which Saints players were allegedly paid bonuses, or “bounties,” for injuring opposing players — allowed time for him to step in as an assistant on Connor’s sixth-grade football team. It would be a stark contrast to the high-stakes world of professional coaching.

“One of the things I’m looking forward to doing this fall is helping coach my son’s football team and doing a few things that you normally wouldn’t be able to do while coaching in the NFL,” he told the Associated Press (viaESPN) in 2012.

He welcomed the chance to spend more time with Connor, adding, “I look forward to cutting the oranges, hauling the Gatorade and watching my son play every game — and being a part of calling plays for his offense and doing some things like that that really get me excited and I know get him excited.”

Sean Payton’s children Meghan Payton and Connor Payton at a high school football event.Meghan Payton/ Instagram

“Absolutely (the best thing about the suspension) is the time it’s allowed me to spend with the children,” he reflected in a 2012 Q&A withNola.com. “One of the things about what we do, so many times you’re missing things, getting pictures of things we miss, phone calls of what you missed.”

“This organization has meant everything to me,” he told WDSU News in 2022. “Just being a football kid, it’s almost hard not to love it and want to have a career in it. … Growing up around the Saints and in New Orleans, how can you not want to work in football and … make your own path in it?”

When his father departed the Saints in 2022, Connorposted a heartfelt tribute on X(formerly Twitter), sharing photos of their moments on the sidelines and post-game over the years. He captioned it, “from age 6 to 21, thank you and love you all #WhoDat.”

source: people.com