Stephon Gilmore is not an elite NFL cornerback, but playing in Rex Ryan's Buffalo Bills defense, the table is set for him to finally make that leap.
Rex Ryan is an aggressive and cutting-edge defensive play-caller and designer. That has always been the case, and it will continue to be the case in his first season as head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
During the 2014 season, his New York Jets defense sent extra pass rushers on 33.1 percent of pass plays, the 10th-highest percentage in the NFL. This was a conservative figure for the usually-much-more-aggressive Ryan, whose play-calling necessarily became more conservative as his starting cornerbacks in New York were routinely abused by opposing quarterbacks.