TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett and his family are over the moon after he and his wife Jordanna welcomed the latest addition to their family this weekend -- a baby girl.
"We welcomed Our sweet Allanah Ray, our heart is so full! 💕 2•3•24 we love you so much already babygirl! 💕" Jordanna wrote on Instagram Saturday.
The arrival comes nine months after their 2-year-old daughter Arrayah tragically drowned in the family's pool last spring. Now, the family is embracing this new chapter while also keeping the memory of their little angel alive.
Barrett and Jordanna announced they were expecting their sweet angel last summer, sharing that the couple knew Arrayah had a "special hand in picking" their baby girl.
“We are so beyond blessed, so beyond grateful that God chose to give us another little girl! We miss our Arrayah every second of every day, but I rest in knowing she’s going to be the best big sister angel to little miss Allanah!” Jordanna posted on Instagram. “Arrayah has given me hope. She has changed so many lives with the short 2 years she blessed this earth, and God works in such mysterious ways, but I will never ever doubt his plans for my life.”
Shaquil and Jordanna share three older children, Shaquil Jr., Braylon and Aaliyah Barrett. Arrayah was the youngest of the four. She was born just a few months after the Bucs won Super Bowl LV.
The 31-year-old linebacker, who’s recovering from a torn Achilles that sidelined him for the second half of last season, is entering his fifth year as a Buccaneer. Before coming to Tampa Bay, he spent the first four seasons of his NFL career with the Denver Broncos.