{"id":45542,"date":"2019-08-07T17:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=45542"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:12:50","slug":"jets-trade-for-ravens-lewis-bolsters-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/08\/07\/jets-trade-for-ravens-lewis-bolsters-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets trade for Ravens Lewis Bolsters Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.clubs.nfl.com\/image\/private\/t_editorial_landscape_8_desktop_mobile\/f_auto\/jets\/esjnbhpzuko7pqzxniyv.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore Ravens guard Alex Lewis (72) blocks in action against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday November 18, 2018 in Baltimore. (Damian Strohmeyer via AP)\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Damian Strohmeyer\/Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jets made a move for Ravens guard Alex Lewis earlier this week for a conditional 2020 7th round pick. Lewis announced on Instagram just hours before the trade that he was going to be released by Baltimore, but apparently the Jets didn&#8217;t want any of the teams in front of them on the waiver wire to place a claim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ravens\u2019 OL Alex Lewis, who started 10 games last season, announced this morning on IG that Baltimore has released him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHO1oWnUrb\">pic.twitter.com\/JHO1oWnUrb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1158357135845146624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Lewis, the Ravens former 4th round pick in 2016, started 18 games in his 3-year tenure.&nbsp; His presence gives the Jets a pair of guards with starting experience along with free agent addition Tom Compton.&nbsp; His experience at left tackle also gives Adam Gase some flexibility along with the depth Lewis provides if there was a need to do some shuffling up front.<\/p>\n<p>After passing his physical, the deal became official in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Damian Strohmeyer\/Associated Press &nbsp; The Jets made a move for Ravens guard Alex Lewis earlier this week for a conditional 2020 7th round pick. Lewis announced on Instagram just hours before the trade that he was going to be released by Baltimore, but apparently the Jets didn&#8217;t want any of the teams in front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":45550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NY-Jets-acquire-offensive-lineman-Alex-Lewis-from-Baltimore-Ravens.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-bQy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45551,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542\/revisions\/45551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}