“I told him right away when he got here, ‘I think you’re the backup we need in this room,'” Griffin said, emphasizing the depth at the position. “Harry (Harrison Smith) will tell you, I think we have one of the oldest rooms now. I think you have 29 and older and then some guys that are 25 and younger, so we have some older guys in the group.

“I think it will help us a lot to have him in this team, in this group, knowing we have a lot of young guys who can learn from a guy like that and I’m one of them,” Griffin continued. “He and Harry are in Year 13 now, the kind of ball they’ve seen and the kind of knowledge they have will help this whole team, especially the guys in the back line. I’ve told him I can’t wait to quiz him a bit every week.”

Gilmore and Smith, who has spent his entire career in Minnesota after being traded to the Minnesota Twins on April 29, 2018.^th In total, 24 seasons of experience and 333 appearances in the regular season were achieved in 2012.

Here’s another interesting tidbit from Stats Perform: Since 1920, only two other DBs have played for a team that has made more than five Pro Bowls and played more than 165 career games each. Those cases occurred in 2000 with Washington (Darrell Green and Deion Sanders) and in 2001 with Baltimore (Carnell Lake and Rod Woodson).

“It’s great. We’ve come together and I’ve seen him play in the league for a long time,” Gilmore said of joining Smith. “He’s been able to make plays and stay in the same spot his whole career, so it’s exciting. Someone who’s seen as many balls as I have, you know, you see the game the same way. It’s going to be fun.”