ROCK HILL, S.C. — Talk to the people who know Stephon Gilmore best and two character traits quickly emerge:
First, Gilmore doesn’t say a whole lot.
“He’s always been a good listener,” said his mother, Linda.
“He’s not a Ray Lewis type, with the fiery speeches. You have to drag words out of him,” said Ellis Johnson, Gilmore’s defensive coordinator in college. “It’s not shyness, that’s just him. He’s very self-assured, but he doesn’t run his mouth.”
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