Patrick Mahomes’ Barber Reveals His Polarizing Haircut Was Supposed to Be Even More Drastic

Patrick Mahomes. John E. Moore III/Getty Images

After Patrick Mahomes’ new haircut proved more divisive than Keri Russell’s on Felicity, the barber of the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback revealed it was supposed to be even more extreme.

DeJuan Bonds, who has been working with Mahomes for years, exclusively told Us Weekly that the NFL superstar originally had a different request when he hit his chair earlier this month. 

“The whole time that I’ve been cutting his hair, he just lets me do what I do,” Bonds said. “But when he asked for a change, he basically was like, ‘Just cut me all off.’”’

In the aftermath of Chiefs’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, Bonds wasn’t about to let his client make any brash decisions.

“I was like, ‘No, no, no. We’re not just going to cut it all off,” Bonds continued. “We’re actually going to collab on this and go a little bit at a time, take it a little bit down. We kind of came to a common ground like, ‘OK, this is the cut, this is the cut, this is the length.’ It was a collaboration on this last one.”

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Mahomes was first seen with his new haircut outside a funeral service for his grandfather, Randy, on February 17. He officially debuted the look in public on a Monday, February 24, date night with his wife, Brittany Mahomes, when the couple attended a college basketball game between Patrick’s alma mater, Texas Tech, and Houston in Lubbock, Texas. 

The haircut has proven incredibly divisive on social media, but Bonds said he was “not surprised” by the reactions.

“A lot of people have mixed reviews about his hair and how they wanted him to cut it off or how they wanted him to keep it,” Bond explained. 

Public outcry aside, Bonds — who owns and operates Purple Label Barbershop in Overland Park Kansas and has worked with numerous professional athletes over the years, including Patrick’s teammates George Karlaftis, Trent McDuffie and Skyy Moore — lauded the Chiefs quarterback for his continued loyalty. 

“He is definitely one of the most humble athletes I’ve run across,” Bonds said. “I’ve been dealing with athletes for probably 20 years. I don’t know why he’s so humble, I really don’t. He’s special. That’s just who he is.”

Bonds added, “I’ve run across the entitled ones and the arrogant ones. And then I run across Patrick.”