{"id":27598,"date":"2014-12-22T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-release-mike-williams\/"},"modified":"2014-12-22T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:07:00","slug":"bills-release-mike-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bills-release-mike-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills release Mike Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills released wide receiver Mike Williams on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was previously on injured reserve for Buffalo with a calf injury. Once he passed a physical, the Bills were able to release him.<\/p>\n<p>In nine games this season, Williams caught eight passes for 142 yards and a touchdown. He last appeared for the Bills in Week 12 and made his last catch in Week 5.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Williams requested a trade after his playing time was reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills acquired Williams from Tampa Bay in April, reuniting him with head coach Doug Marrone who also coached him in college at Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-year career mostly with the Buccaneers, the 27-year-old Williams has 223 catches for 3,089 yards and 26 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchard Park, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Buffalo Bills released wide receiver Mike Williams on Monday. Williams was previously on injured reserve for Buffalo with a calf injury. Once he passed a physical, the Bills were able to release him. In nine games this season, Williams caught eight passes for 142 yards and a touchdown. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,82,81],"class_list":["post-27598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}