Joe Burrow and Olivia Ponton Have Been ‘Hooking Up’ Since Early Fall (Unique Supply)

Joe Burrow and Olivia Ponton have been “hooking up” since early fall, PEOPLE can completely affirm.

Rumblings a couple of potential romance between the NFL quarterback and the SI Swim mannequin started after PEOPLE confirmed that Ponton had been the one to alert police after Burrow’s home was robbed on Monday, Dec. 9.

An insider who is aware of each Burrow, 28, and Ponton, 22, tells PEOPLE completely, “They’ve been hooking up because the early fall and are preserving it informal.”

Reps for Burrow and Ponton didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

The police report obtained by PEOPLE marked the primary time the couple was linked, and sparked hypothesis about how lengthy they have been collectively previous to the reported break-in on the NFL star’s Anderson Township residence.

In keeping with the police report, the TikTok star reported the break-in at Burrow’s dwelling round 8:14 p.m., telling authorities that when she arrived she observed a “shattered bed room window and the room ransacked.”

Ponton, who has over 10 million followers throughout Instagram and TikTok, known as her mom, “prompting the 911 name,” the report provides. As soon as deputies arrived on the property, they cleared the house and the Felony Intelligence Part (CIS) captured photos and proof of the scene.

Burrow, in the meantime, was “was out of city” enjoying in Dallas when the theft occurred and could not report what gadgets had been taken, based on the police. Ponton, described as an worker for Burrow within the police report, shared a listing of what was “presumably lacking.”

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Authorities are additionally checking with neighbors to see if surveillance footage captured video of any potential suspects. CIS is investigating, the report states.

In police audio obtained by TMZ, Ponton’s mom could possibly be heard telling a dispatcher that her daughter was “questioning what she ought to do, if she must be hiding or if she must be going exterior.”

Ponton is later heard in a separate name saying, “Somebody broke into my home… It’s like utterly tousled.”

On Dec. 11, Burrow spoke out for the primary time in regards to the dwelling housebreaking. “So clearly everyone has heard what has occurred,” Burrow advised reporters in regards to the incident that occurred whereas he was away in Texas for a game against the Dallas Cowboys.

“I really feel like my privateness has been violated in additional methods than one and far more is already on the market than I might need on the market and that I care to share in order that’s all I acquired to say about that,” he added.

Ponton, in the meantime, has but to publicly touch upon the matter.