6 Actors Who Could Play Young Gibbs in 'NCIS' Spinoff

With NCIS: Origins on the horizon, who will play young Leroy Jethro Gibbs? The new NCIS prequel will center on Gibbs' early days in NCIS when he was just starting out in the career. The series takes place in 1991, and Mark Harmon will only be narrating the series. His son, Sean Harmon, portrayed young Gibbs in flashbacks in multiple episodes of the Mothership series but will be taking a step back to focus on executive producing the prequel. Meaning that someone else will be taking on the Gibbs mantle.

It's hard to step into the shoes of a character that is already established and so loved, but it must be done. Casting will be launching to find the new Gibbs and there is no telling just who will be picked and if they will go with someone who is relatively new to the industry or someone who is familiar to many. We have narrowed down a short list of actors in their 30s – since Gibbs is 37 in the prequel – who could play him. This is all opinion, but you never know what can happen.