Times were different in 2021, but the players around him were star-struck when he walked in.<\/p>\n
“When he first walked in, he’s got that quiet voice, and he’s like ‘How you guys doing, I’m Stephon Gilmore,'” former cornerback Keith Taylor said, doing his best low-key Gilmore impersonation. “I looked at him like ‘Dang.’ I mean, my freshman year, in 2017, he got a pick in the Super Bowl. So it’s crazy seeing him.<\/p>\n
“But he fits in. It’s not like a starstruck thing anymore. He’s like one of the guys now.”<\/p>\n
Gilmore was originally a first-round pick of the Bills in 2012, chosen 10th overall, and one spot after the Panthers chose Hall of Famer Luke Kuechly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Times were different in 2021, but the players around him were star-struck when he walked in. “When he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-849999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116337118104439993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}