In March 2018, Mike Evans, Buccaneers star WR signed a five-year $82.5 million contract extension with $55 million in guaranteed money. At the time, this made Evans the second highest paid WR in the NFL only behind Antonio Brown. The man behind the negotiation of this contract was his agent, Deryk Gilmore. Deryk Gilmore, former Penn State nose tackle on […]
Deryk Gilmore, who negotiated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Mike Evans’ $82.5 million contract, along with 16 other NFL agents were recently suspended by the NFL Players Association. Currently, there are 849 registered NFL agents and 1,696 active roster NFL players. Of the total number of active roster NFL players, 270 players are represented by three […]
Happy Friday ladies and gentlemen! In case you missed it, we posted our complete player-agent listings of the 2015 NFL Draft earlier in the week. There was extremely sad news last week with Dante Fowler Jr., the 3rd overall pick, suffering a season-ending ACL tear in his first day of the Jags rookie camp. Thankfully […]
Priority Sports adds six more prospects to the agency’s already impressive 2015 NFL Draft Class. Prospects Randy Gregory (DE, Nebraska), La’el Collins (OT, LSU), and P.J. Williams (CB, Florida State) will be represented by NFLPA certified agent Deryk Gilmore. Similarly, prospects Nate Orchard (DE, Utah), Dres Anderson (WR, Utah), and Mickey Baucus (OT, Arizona) will be […]
A week after Priority Sports landed Texas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans, the Chicago-based agency added another wideout to its client roster: Alabama’s Kevin Norwood. NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor, Deryk Gilmore, will represent the D’Iberville, Mississippi native. “A great signing for our company with Kevin Norwood out of the University of Alabama,” Gilmore said. One […]
Top-rated wide receiver, Mike Evans, recently declared for the 2014 NFL Draft. Late Tuesday night, the former Texas A&M Aggie signed with Chicago-based Priority Sports. According to Yahoo’s Rand Getlin, NFLPA Certified Contract Advisor Deryk Gilmore will represent Evans. “We are excited to have Mike Evans with the Priority Sports family,” Gilmore confirmed to Sports Agent Blog Tuesday […]
There exists an “extremely urgent and devastating player career-transitioning problem.” NFL players have a very difficult time confronting this problem says Dr. Timothy Thompson in an article on Access Athletes. I spoke to Dr. Thompson about the potential economic and social benefits for sports agencies that determine it is worth their while to build formal […]