NFL quarterback Sam Hartman named as star of next season of ‘The Bachelor’

Share Add Us On Google Add as a preferred source on Google (Gray News) - The Washington Commanders’ Sam Hartman is set to be the next “Bachelor.” “Sam Hartman will be looking for love this offseason,” the team said in a press release. The 27-year-old quarterback will star in the next season of “The Bachelor,” which will be the hit show’s 30th season. “I’m excited but also very nervous,” Hartman said Friday on “Good Morning America.” “I have a tough time holding conversation with one girl. Thirty is going to be pretty tough.” Hartman said that he was hesitant at first about being on the show, even nearly turning it down, but said a conversation with former “Bachelor” and NFL player Jesse Palmer changed his mind. “He kind of gave me the insight of what it is, what it’s not,” Hartman said. “And I think anybody in their right mind, if you get told, ‘Hey, you’ve got a chance to go find the love of your life,’ I know one thing, when people are saying, ‘I do,’ they don’t ask you where you met, they ask if you wanna do it forever, and I don’t see any problem with that.” Hartman was signed as a free agent with the Washington Commanders in 2024. Prior to the NFL, he played four seasons of college football at Wake Forest before spending a season at Notre Dame. As for what he is looking for when it comes to love, Hartman said that he is looking for someone with drive and a competitive spirit. “Competitiveness and somebody that I want to be able to chase. Not chase in a way that, ‘You haven’t texted me back in a week,’ but chase in a way that they have a drive for something and motivates me to wake up every day to chase them.” Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.