Stephon Gilmore landing spots: Best fits as Pro Bowl CB ‘being patient and waiting for the right opportunity’

The NFL is now on summer break with organized team activities and minicamps now wrapped up. 

However, four players from senior NFL columnist Pete Prisco’s top 100 free agent rankings remain on the open market, with the best player available ranking 31st on his list: cornerback Stephon Gilmore. 

Gilmore, the last defensive back to win the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year award — which he did in 2019 with the New England Patriots — is a five time Pro Bowl selection (2016, 2018-2021) and two-time first-team All-Pro (2018-2019) who’s set to enter his 13th NFL season in 2024 after being selected 10th overall out of South Carolina by the Buffalo Bills in the 2012 NFL Draft. 

“Being patient right now,” Gilmore said Wednesday, via MassLive.com, when asked about his NFL future on the red carpet of Tom Brady’s Patriots Hall of Fame ceremony. “I feel good, Year 13, been playing a long time. So I’m just being patient and waiting for the right opportunity.”  

Following five seasons in Buffalo, the last of which in 2016 culminated with his first career Pro Bowl nod, he signed a five-year, $65 million contract to remain in the AFC East with the New England Patriots. Gilmore earned three of his five Pro Bowl selections and both of his All-Pro nods (2018-2019) under Bill Belichick’s tutelage. His first All-Pro season in 2018 culminated in the Patriots’ 13-3 Super Bowl LIII victory over the Los Angeles Rams in which Gilmore hauled in a fourth-quarter interception near the goal line.

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Author : Garrett Podell

Publish date : 2024-06-16 17:03:16

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