He's back in Philadelphia now, the full 180-degree journey complete as he returns to the team that signed him out of Illinois and now hired him as the wide receivers coach. Lewis made it to the NFL because, in addition to talent, he took coaching well, he worked hard and he absorbed everything and never let anyone tell him he was too small or too slow and too anything to stay and prove himself in the NFL.
"Well, I always considered myself bigger, faster and stronger than all those people," Lewis said on Tuesday, "so I thought I was a very good player.