{"id":49733,"date":"2020-03-17T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=49733"},"modified":"2020-03-17T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:40:46","slug":"reports-jets-to-sign-c-connor-mcgovern-bring-back-g-alex-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2020\/03\/17\/reports-jets-to-sign-c-connor-mcgovern-bring-back-g-alex-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Jets to Sign C McGovern; Bring Back G Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets first three reported moves in free agency are all offensive line related. Yesterday news came out that they have agree to a deal with Seattle Seahwawks free agent tackle <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2020\/03\/16\/jets-sign-ot-george-fant-fast-facts\/\">George Fant<\/a><\/strong>. Now today the reports are saying that the Jets are set to add Broncos center Connor McGovern and they are bringing back their own free agent guard Alex Lewis.<\/p>\n<h2>Connor McGovern<\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Jets and C Connor McGovern agreed to a  3-year, $27 million deal, per source <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nyj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nyj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianCoz\/status\/1240042771530080257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Connor McGovern is still young (26), a theme to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> free agency thus far. He turns 27 next month. <\/p>\n<p>Coming off the best season of his career. Allowed just one sack and three quarterback hits on 609 pass-blocking snaps. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a noticeably better pass blocker than run.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Connor_J_Hughes\/status\/1240044126923563011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">McGovern gives Adam Gase a versatile piece along the offensive line. He started 16 games at center for the Broncos last season. He has also started at right guard. <\/p>\n<p>36 career starts.<\/p>\n<p>26 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p1KdDLhwSv\">https:\/\/t.co\/p1KdDLhwSv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manish Mehta (@MMehtaSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMehtaSports\/status\/1240043057841680387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h2>Alex Lewis<\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: Jets agree to terms on a 3-year, $18.6 million deal to bring back left guard Alex Lewis ($6M guaranteed). <\/p>\n<p>Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtDB7NN42d\">https:\/\/t.co\/xtDB7NN42d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4iGRYszZ5\">pic.twitter.com\/w4iGRYszZ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manish Mehta (@MMehtaSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMehtaSports\/status\/1240011056153591809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lewis started 12 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>He played in 764 offensive plays, which was every offensive play from Games 4-15 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BqI7HgqDRX\">https:\/\/t.co\/BqI7HgqDRX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Allen (@eallenjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eallenjets\/status\/1240012904247812097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>You can read more about these moves in our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.JetNation.com\">NY Jets forum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets first three reported moves in free agency are all offensive line related. Yesterday news came out that they have agree to a deal with Seattle Seahwawks free agent tackle George Fant. Now today the reports are saying that the Jets are set to add Broncos center Connor McGovern and they are bringing back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49740,"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-49733","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\/2020\/03\/Connor-McGovern.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-cW9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49733","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49741,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49733\/revisions\/49741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}