{"id":453856,"date":"2023-08-04T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453856"},"modified":"2023-08-04T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:33:00","slug":"marcedes-lewis-inks-1-year-deal-with-bears","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/marcedes-lewis-inks-1-year-deal-with-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcedes Lewis inks 1-year deal with Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent TE Marcedes Lewis has agreed to a 1-season contract with the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bears finalizing a deal with TE Marcedes Lewis. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YGGv7zTiM7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YGGv7zTiM7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1687455607383543808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He will start his 18<sup>th<\/sup> NFL campaign in September, which would break a tie with Jason Witten and Tony Gonzalez for the most ever appeared as tight end. Mercedes has competed in 251 matches in his NFL career, which ranks 5<sup>th<\/sup> among active players.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis (39) caught only 6 passes for 66 yards and 2 TDs for Green Bay Packers in the past season, but he contributed a lot to the franchise as a blocker.<\/p>\n<p>NY Jets QB Aaron Rodgers even praised the tight end during the off-season and shared that he would be honored to play with him and finish his career as his teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes will compete with Cole Kmet and Robert Tonyan, another former Green Bay player, for the tight end position in the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Jaguars picked him at the 2006 NFL Draft, and he spent 12 years with them. Lewis was part of the Pro Bowl in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent TE Marcedes Lewis has agreed to a 1-season contract with the Chicago Bears. Bears finalizing a deal with TE Marcedes Lewis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17002,20102,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18136,20103,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The tight end will continue his career with Chicago.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453856"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453856"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}