FOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014 Stephon Gilmore wasn\u2019t known for being much of a talker during his 13 NFL seasons.<\/p>\n
But one of the most dominant cornerbacks of his era is officially retiring with the team with whom he had the most success during his career.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Gilmore is returning to New England on Friday to sign a one-day contract and retire as a member of the Patriots, the team he won his\u00a0lone Super Bowl\u00a0with to cap the 2018 season.<\/p>\n
Gilmore last played in 2024 with the Minnesota Vikings and previously announced his retirement in April via an\u00a0Instagram post.<\/p>\n
Selected 10th in the 2012 draft by the Buffalo Bills, Gilmore established himself as one of the league\u2019s premier players in the secondary over the next five seasons.<\/p>\n
Gilmore was an instant standout in New England\u2019s secondary after arriving as a free agent from Buffalo in 2017.<\/p>\n
He earned the first of two straight AP All-Pro selections in his second season with the Patriots in 2018. He also had the game-clinching interception late in the fourth quarter of New England\u2019s 13-3 Super Bowl win over the Los Angeles Rams to cap that season.<\/p>\n
In 2019 he became the first player in Patriots history to be named NFL Defensive Player of the Year, leading the league with a career-high six interceptions, two returned for touchdowns. In addition, he had a career-high 20 pass breakups in both 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n
He was\u00a0traded to the Carolina Panthers\u00a0during the 2021 season.<\/p>\n
His career includes stints with the Bills (2012-16), Patriots (2017-20), Panthers (2021), Indianapolis Colts (2022), Dallas Cowboys (2023) and Vikings (2024).<\/p>\n
The five-time Pro Bowl selection ends his career with 32 interceptions and 149 pass breakouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014 Stephon Gilmore wasn\u2019t known for being much of a talker during his 13 NFL seasons.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-900726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}