The Green Bay Packers have re-signed tight end Marcedes Lewis on a one-year deal, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Lewis is coming off of a 2018 campaign in which he played all 16 games and caught just three passes for 39 yards.
The 34-year-old, who played his collegiate football at UCLA, was originally selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the first round (28th pick overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft.
He appeared in 15 contests during his rookie season, finishing with 13 catches for 126 yards and a score. Then, the following year, Lewis hauled in 37 receptions for 391 yards while reaching the end zone twice.
The Long Beach, Ca. native showed incremental improvement over his first several seasons in the league before finally making the Pro Bowl in 2010 after catching 58 passes for 700 yards and 10 touchdowns.
That was, by far, Lewis' best year of his career, as he began to decline afterward.
Lewis only reached 500 yards once after that Pro Bowl season, snaring 52 balls for 540 yards and four scores in 2012.
He spent the first 12 years of his career with the Jaguars, but in his last four seasons, he became almost an afterthought in Jacksonville's offense, resulting in the Jags finally cutting him last March.
Lewis then went on to sign with the Packers last May.
If nothing else, he will represent a veteran leader in the locker room.
Green Bay is coming off of a season in which it went just 6-9-1 and missed the playoffs, marking the first time since 2006 that the Packers had failed to qualify for the postseason in back-to-back campaigns.
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