{"id":576325,"date":"2026-04-10T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:36:08","slug":"sean-taylors-brother-gabe-makes-his-d-c-debut-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576325\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Taylor’s brother, Gabe, makes his D.C. debut on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabe Taylor was six when his brother, Sean, died at 24. Now 24, Gabe Taylor is a day away from playing his first home game as a member of the D.C. Defenders.<\/p>\n

Via Todd Archer of ESPN, the younger brother of Washington great Sean Taylor plays defensive back for the local UFL team<\/a>. Like Sean did, Gabe Taylor wears No. 21.<\/p>\n

Gabe didn\u2019t play football until his senior year in high school. He had 11 interceptions and six pick-sixes in his only season at Gulliver Prep in Miami, where the field is now named for Sean Taylor.<\/p>\n

After playing college football at Rice, Gabe Taylor wasn\u2019t drafted in 2025. He had a tryout at the Commanders\u2019 rookie minicamp<\/a>, but there were no NFL offers.<\/p>\n

Enter the UFL. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you this, if he was two inches taller, he wouldn\u2019t be playing in our league right now, for sure,\u201d Defenders coach Shannon Harris told Archer. \u201cHe\u2019d definitely be playing in the NFL. But Gabe, man, the kid is very smart. You can see the football pedigree there. He\u2019s another guy that flies around. He\u2019s sticky in coverage. He does a great job getting his hands on the ball, lot of pass deflections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, Gabe Taylor sealed a win over the Columbus Aviators with an interception.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is everything to me,\u201d Gabe Taylor told Archer. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a reminder, especially with the Taylor name on the top. I can\u2019t just half-ass everything. So it\u2019s definitely a reminder, I have to put my best foot forward because I can mess up and people be like, \u2018Oh, you suck,\u2019 just like that. I can make everybody smile by making plays and then give it one play and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, this kid can\u2019t play.\u2019 So it\u2019s like, this means everything. The legacy I feel like I have to carry, but it\u2019s definitely a reminder, it\u2019s bigger than football.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, frankly, this is the kind of story the UFL needs, if it hopes to become bigger than it currently is. For D.C. fans on Saturday, the home debut of Sean Taylor\u2019s brother will make it a very big game at Audi Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabe Taylor was six when his brother, Sean, died at 24. Now 24, Gabe Taylor is a day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-576325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}