{"id":660246,"date":"2026-04-03T04:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:49:14","slug":"two-time-all-pro-2019-dpoy-stephon-gilmore-retires-from-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660246\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Pro, 2019 DPOY Stephon Gilmore retires from NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time All-Pro cornerback Stephon Gilmore<\/a> announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday.<\/p>\n

I have had an incredible 13 years in the League, and I cannot wait to see what this next chapter holds,” Gilmore, 35, wrote in a post to Instagram.<\/p>\n

Gilmore was selected a first-team All-Pro in both 2018 and 2019 while playing for the New England Patriots<\/a>. He also was named the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2019 when he led the NFL with six interceptions and 20 passes defended.<\/p>\n

A first-round pick out of South Carolina by the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in 2012, Gilmore played his first five seasons in Buffalo before signing with the Patriots in 2017.<\/p>\n

He spent the next four seasons with New England, winning a Super Bowl with the team in 2018 when he had two interceptions and five passed defended in the Patriots’ three-game postseason run to the championship.<\/p>\n

He was traded to the Carolina Panthers<\/a> in 2021, signed with the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> in 2022, was traded to the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> in 2023 and played for the Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

He did not play last season after going unsigned in free agency.<\/p>\n

He finishes his career with 32 interceptions, 149 passes defended and 617 tackles in 180 games (173 starts). He was selected to five Pro Bowls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time All-Pro cornerback Stephon Gilmore announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday. I have had an incredible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-660246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116338973968068932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}