'19 Kids and Counting' Jana Duggar and Tim Tebow dating rumors squashed

(PHOTO: TLC)From left to right: Ben, Jessa, Michelle, Jim Bob, Jill and Derick.

19 Kids and Counting star, Jana Duggar, and NFL player, Tim Tebow, are being surrounded by relationship rumors, though reports are suggesting that it could all be speculation.

Just months after Jessa Duggar's wedding to Ben Seewald, another Duggar daughter is opening herself up in the romance department. Rumors are suggesting that Jana Duggar is dating former Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow. However, Tebow's representative has already spoken and immediately squashed rumors of the two dating.

"Tim and Jana Duggar have never even met," said Tebow's representative in a statement given to US Weekly.

The dating rumors originated when Tim's parents met with Michelle and Jim Bob during a speaker's gathering. Tabloid, Star, reported that Jim Bob decided to set up 24-year-old Jana to the 27-year-old athlete. The tabloid further reported that Jim Bob and Michelle are so eager and committed to setting up the romance between Tebow and their daughter that they even held secret meetings in order for the two to get to know each other.

If Jana and Tim would give dating a chance, one thing that they have in common is their faith, which they have been both talking about openly in separate occasions. It is also known that it was faith and religion that brought the first two Duggar daughters to their husbands, ultimately leading to marriage.

To answer back on the rumor, Jim Bob released a statement to People saying that he does not choose the men that his daughters marry.

"Over the years, I have suggested guys to my daughters or we have had a lot of guys that approach us and are interested in this girl or that girl, but each of our girls have chosen their spouse on their own," said Jim Bob to People.

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