{"id":232651,"date":"2026-04-03T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:27:09","slug":"two-time-all-pro-cornerback-stephon-gilmore-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232651\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Pro cornerback Stephon Gilmore announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time All-Pro cornerback and 2019 NFL AP Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore, who last played in 2024, has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmore issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWo506Elanj\/?img_index=1\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram post<\/a> Thursday that showed video highlights of his career and closed with the message, \u201cThe game ends here, but the journey continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my first love, Football \u2014 As a young, scrappy kid from Rock Hill, South Carolina, with humble beginnings, the eldest of 6 \u2014 you gave me focus, opportunity, strength, and friends to last a lifetime,\u201d Gilmore said in the post. \u201cFrom my first game with Finley Road Falcons to two Super Bowls, multiple Pro Bowls, and a Defensive Player of the Year Award, you taught me the invaluable lesson of working hard and believing in myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gilmore also thanked his wife and kids \u201cfor making it possible for me to chase my dreams\u201d and his parents \u201cfor raising me to be the man I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Gilmore was the defensive player of the year and had a league-leading six interceptions in 2019 with the New England Patriots. He also earned All-Pro honors in 2018 during a Super Bowl championship season with the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>He had 32 interceptions and was selected to five Pro Bowls during a 13-year career that included stints with the Buffalo Bills (2012-16), Patriots (2017-20), Carolina Panthers (2021), Indianapolis Colts (2022), Dallas Cowboys (2023) and Minnesota Vikings (2024). The Bills selected Gilmore out of South Carolina with the 10th overall pick in the 2012 draft.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Pro cornerback and 2019 NFL AP Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore, who last played in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[90055,202,196,86579,88829,41978,199,87667,87686,942,82,84,83,90056,90054],"class_list":["post-232651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-finley-road-falcons","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40785-ap-indiana-sports-only","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40793-ap-minnesota-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only","tag-product-40812-ap-south-carolina-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-stephon-gilmore","tag-stephon-gilmore-retires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}