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The most recent development in the continuing drama around whether or not cornerback Stephon Gilmore will be with the Patriots come the 2021 season has been released.
Since the 2020 season concluded, a plethora of summer reports regarding Gilmore and New England have surfaced. One said in March that the 2019 NFL Defensive Player of the Year would be traded; it was a “foregone conclusion.” Although those rumors were quickly denied, they soon surfaced once more regarding the possibility that the Patriots might trade up in the draft, possibly include Gilmore as part of the proposed transaction.
But after a draft-day trade didn’t materialize, the signs have continued to point towards Gilmore’s return to play in New England in 2021. Even amid a minicamp holdout, the 30-year-old’s position in negotiating a new contract with the Patriots’ front office hasn’t (and reportedly isn’t likely to become) “acrimonious.”
The newest update came from ESPN reporter Jeremy Fowler on Thursday.
“The Patriots and Gilmore know they can intensify contract talks sometime in the next few weeks,” said Fowler. “And I’m told that Gilmore has largely not expected to be traded throughout this process because he knows the Patriots have made moves with Gilmore in mind.
“They haven’t gotten a cornerback to replace him,” Fowler noted. “And as one source told me, ‘Do the Patriots really want to go into Week 4 against Tom Brady without their top cornerback?’ And so things are slow right now, but I expect those sides to ramp up negotiations sometime before training camp.”
Gilmore is currently set to play on the final year of a five-year deal worth $65 million. But because of the specifics of the contract, he is set to make $7.7 million in 2021, far lower than the current salaries of some of the league’s other top cornerbacks (a fact which he recently acknowledged on Twitter).
