{"id":311,"date":"2016-08-31T18:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:05:19","slug":"bills-acquire-center-patrick-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2016\/08\/31\/bills-acquire-center-patrick-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills Acquire Center Patrick Lewis Off Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buffalo Bills<\/strong><\/a> claimed center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LewiPa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Lewis<\/a><\/strong> off waivers, <strong>NFL Network<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mikegarafolo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mike Garafolo<\/strong><\/a> reported Wednesday. Lewis had been released by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seahawks.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Seattle Seahawks<\/strong><\/a> a day earlier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bills claimed OL Patrick Lewis off waivers, source says. Waived by Seattle yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/771084666006831104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Buffalo Bills Acquire Center Patrick Lewis Off Waivers<\/h2>\n<p>The move brings added depth to the position. Lewis is expected to compete with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/V\/VelaFe20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fernando Velasco<\/a> <\/strong>for the role of backup behind <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WoodEr20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Wood<\/a><\/strong>, who has been the Bills regular starter since 2009. Wood made his first Pro Bowl in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;1&#8243;, 311 pound offensive lineman was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packers.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Green Bay Packers<\/strong><\/a> in 2013. After being released during the final round of preseason cuts that year, he was signed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandbrowns.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cleveland Browns<\/strong><\/a> on September 1st. But he didn&#8217;t see any playing time and was waived on November 26th while being added to their practice squad three days later.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis would later sign with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaguars.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jacksonville Jaguars<\/strong><\/a> on December 17th. He remained with the team until the following preseason when he was released. The Seahawks claimed him off waivers on August 26th.<\/p>\n<p>It was in Seattle where Lewis made the most of opportunity. With incumbent starter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/U\/UngeMa20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Unger<\/a><\/strong> only able to make six starts in 2014 due to injury, Lewis stepped in. He would end up starting four regular season games and made one postseason appearance in Seattle&#8217;s 31-17 win over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panthers.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carolina Panthers<\/strong><\/a> in the NFC divisional round.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis made a further nine starts during the 2015 regular season and played in both playoff games. But over the course of this year&#8217;s preseason, 2014 second-round pick <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BritJu00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Britt<\/a><\/strong> began to supersede him on the depth chart. That made him expendable as the team starts trimming the roster down to 53.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills close out their 2016 preseason on Thursday on the road against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Detroit Lions<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0Kickoff is slated for 7:30 PM ET.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/459238210\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 76.936027% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/459238210?et=XNMGB2TbTvtuJinizmSmdw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=b2cCwjZq2qj_rMm_hjdyQDTqF6mbfUg_5BjJbUOlPPo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"457\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills claimed center Patrick Lewis off waivers, NFL Network&#8216;s Mike Garafolo reported Wednesday. Lewis had been released by the Seattle Seahawks a day earlier. Bills claimed OL Patrick Lewis off waivers, source says. Waived by Seattle yesterday. &mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) August 31, 2016 Buffalo Bills Acquire Center Patrick Lewis Off Waivers The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36],"tags":[7357,178],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bills","category-nfl-news","tag-buffalo-bills-roster","tag-patrick-lewis"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}