DWTS’ Rylee Arnold Goes Public With College Football Boyfriend Walker Lyons

Dancing With the Stars pro Rylee Arnold appears to be off the market.

Rylee, 19, took to social media on Sunday, October 27, to share a series of cozy snaps of herself cuddling up to University of Southern California Trojans tight end Walker Lyons.

The professional dancer captioned the Instagram carousel, “Is this a hard launch?? 🤭❤️‍🔥.”

The carousel’s seven photos captured Rylee gazing adoringly at the football player, who is seen wrapping his arm around her. Other snaps show Rylee hugging him and enjoying the game as well as Rylee posing for a photo on the field alongside her sister Brynley Arnold and Brynley’s husband, Donny McGinnis.

For Lyons’ part, he posted a photo of himself cuddling a beaming Rylee (taken from Rylee’s post) via an Instagram Story shared at the same time as Rylee’s carousel.

The PDA share comes after Rylee revealed via TikTok on October 4 that she had started dating a mystery man. “OK friends, get ready with me for rehearsal while I debrief the date I went on a couple nights ago,” Rylee began in her post. “Fun fact, we actually hung out last night as well.”

Rylee then called the most recent meet-up “a little bit more spontaneous” than the first date. “We’ve gone out two nights in a row now,” Rylee explained as she applied makeup. She then called the first night, “so fun,” revealing that they got food and walked around California’s Santa Monica.

“He was so easy to talk to,” she said in the video. “We have so many similarities which was so fun to talk about. He is so sweet and humble and just all the amazing qualities. So I’m really curious to see how this all pans out.”

She added that “he has a really busy schedule” like her, but that their calendars similarly align. “Luckily, our schedules kind of work out together,” she said. “We’re both busy and free at the same time of the week. It makes things kind of nice.”

Rylee has been single since joining the cast of DWTS in 2023, when she was partnered with Harry Jowsey. The pair’s chemistry sparked romance rumors, which Rylee and Jowsey, 27, denied.

Jowsey later revealed he had been dating his Perfect Match partner Jess Vestal, but the twosome broke up amid his DWTS journey.

Rylee is partnered with Stephen Nedoroscik in the current season of DWTS, with the couple set to dance to “I Ran (So Far Away)” by Hidden Citizens during the Tuesday, October 29, episode.