ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Wide receiver Mike Williams could not have been more excited in April when the Bills, the team he grew up rooting for while living in Buffalo, acquired him in a trade from Tampa Bay for a sixth-round draft pick. Now, six games into his first season with the team, it appears he might have had enough of home cooking.

After the Bills made Williams inactive for the game against the New England Patriots, Williams’ agent, Hadley Engelhard, called general manager Doug Whaley and asked permission to seek a trade.

“We are not seeking to trade Mike Williams,” Whaley said Monday. “His agent asked us; and, with anybody on this 53-man roster, if someone calls, it is our responsibility to listen to what someone offers.”

Whaley made it clear that the Bills did not make the initial call, and he also said the team is not upset with Williams and wants him to remain and contribute to the offense.

“We like Mike Williams. We expect him back and we expect big things from him,” Whaley said of the team’s most experienced wideout. “But, like anybody, if (the agent) gets me compensation worthy of a No. 1 wide receiver, which (the agent) claimed he is, then we would entertain it. But we would entertain it with anybody before the deadline. Doesn’t say we’re going to do it. We would entertain it.”

Williams has been a disappointment thus far. In the five games he has played, he has caught eight passes for 142 yards and a touchdown. The touchdown came on an 80-yard pass against Houston, meaning it represents more than half of his yardage total. The only other play of consequence Williams made was a big 20-yard catch in overtime at Chicago that kept alive the Bills’ winning drive.

On Sunday, Williams was inactive because, as coach Doug Marrone explained, it was a numbers game related to the unexpected availability of injured defensive tackle Kyle Williams. The Bills didn’t think he would play due to a knee injury, and they had planned a tight end-heavy offensive package and needed certain players for special teams — an area where Mike Williams doesn’t contribute.

“You start to go through and see where we were banged up a little bit, where we needed guys to play, where we needed special teams,” said Marrone, who coached Williams briefly at Syracuse before suspending the receiver, which ended his career there.

“You go through all of those different scenarios, and it’s not an easy decision. We went with that decision. I brought Mike in on Saturday and I told him I needed him to do this for the team. I said, ‘It’s not a great situation, but it’s due to the special teams and everything that we needed to cover.’ We talked to him and he handled it like a pro, and he’ll be ready to go next week.”

Williams was not available for comment, but he tweeted that people should calm down and that his agent was only doing what agents are supposed to do.

“Chill everybody,” Williams tweeted. “I’m happy with being a Buffalo Bill. I mean, come on, it’s my dream. My agent just did what an agent is supposed to do.”

But Williams clearly is unhappy. He has been on the field for just 51 percent of the offensive snaps in his five games, and neither EJ Manuel nor Kyle Orton has utilized him much when he has played.

Asked about Williams’ season to date, Whaley said, “Some bright spots, but there are things — you can even ask him — that he needs to improve on and we all need to improve on. We’re 3-3, so everybody across the board. We expect Mike Williams to come help us win games. I’m very pleased with Mike Williams; it was just a numbers game (Sunday).”