{"id":49128,"date":"2018-09-10T19:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=49128"},"modified":"2018-09-10T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:49:08","slug":"buffalo-bills-waive-adolphus-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/09\/10\/buffalo-bills-waive-adolphus-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills Waive Adolphus Washington, Sign Nate Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter reported on Monday that the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/bills\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> released defensive tackle <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WashAd00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adolphus Washington<\/a><\/strong>. The 23-year-old had two years remaining on his rookie contract. In addition to this transaction, the club also signed outside linebacker <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/O\/OrchNa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Orchard<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bills waived defensive lineman Adolphus Washington, per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1039282765718593536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ve signed DE Nate Orchard to a one-year deal and released DT Adolphus Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8vGoDj5njR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8vGoDj5njR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYiEEnMiwu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/VYiEEnMiwu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloBills\/status\/1039298738219560962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Adolphus Washington Released by Buffalo Bills\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Buffalo will incur a $188,574 dead money charge on their 2018 salary cap, according to OverTheCap.com. It&#8217;s a relatively small addition to a sizable dead cap for this season. The Bills have twice as much dead money on their books for 2018 than any other NFL team.<\/p>\n<p>Washington saw action on 32 defensive snaps during the Bills season opener, a 47-3 blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens. He made just two tackles which were tied for 15th on the team. Pro Football Focus gave him a grade of 68.5 which ranked 36th among NFL interior defenders.<\/p>\n<p>During his first two seasons with the Bills, Washington made a total of 22 starts and appeared in 30 regular season games. Last year, he led all Bills defensive tackles with 22 tackles and added a sack. He started the team&#8217;s playoff contest against the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/jaguars\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> and registered a single tackle.<\/p>\n<p>But the unit as a whole didn&#8217;t exactly impress in 2017. The Bills surrendered 124.6 rushing yards per game which were fourth-worst in the NFL. And only the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/colts\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> managed fewer sacks than Buffalo&#8217;s 27 on the year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a major reason why the team addressed their defensive front both in free agency and via the draft. They signed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LotuSt00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star Lotulelei<\/a><\/strong> to a five-year, $50 million deal while also taking <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PhilHa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harrison Phillips<\/a><\/strong> in the third round of the NFL Draft. Phillips is notable for doing the most bench press reps at this year&#8217;s Combine. He was also considered a steal considering where the Bills drafted him.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest example of general manager <strong>Brandon Beane<\/strong> engaging in a clean break with the previous regime. The release of Washington means that the only player from former general manager <strong>Doug Whaley<\/strong>&#8216;s 2016 draft class is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/L\/LawsSh00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaq Lawson<\/a><\/strong>. And though Lawson&#8217;s tenure in Buffalo has also been shaky, his status as a first-round pick likely precludes him getting released given the Bills&#8217; dead cap situation.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"01uUCGH8RSZTOaPO8rW2-w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/874651762\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'01uUCGH8RSZTOaPO8rW2-w',sig:'QQ4R_0S6nsl4VkDrEL05GVVapG1pGTJO5p2nVRCAWhc=',w:'594px',h:'435px',items:'874651762',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills waived third-year defensive tackle Adolphus Washington according to reports, cutting ties with one of their 2016 draft picks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":49132,"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":[2766,177,61,40,1159],"class_list":["post-49128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bills","category-nfl-news","tag-adolphus-washington","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sean-mcdermott"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128","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=49128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}