Inside Linebacker · New York Jets

Demario Davis

No. 56 · 15th season

Davis didn't come back to the Jets to just play — he came back to show them what it looks like

There's a difference between signing with a team and choosing one. Demario Davis chose.

Davis is a linebacker who has spent years being the kind of player teams build a locker room around — the one younger players watch to learn what showing up every day actually means. He agreed to join the New York Jets this March, and the way he talked about it made clear he wasn't just looking for a roster spot.

Aaron Glenn is in his second year leading the Jets, and Davis said he wants to be part of whatever Glenn is building — not as a bystander, but as proof of concept. He wants to be the example. The living answer to the question of what a winning culture looks like before the wins have arrived.

That is a specific kind of role to volunteer for. It asks more than football. It asks you to carry something for a team that is still figuring out who it is.

The Jets have been waiting a long time to become something. Davis is betting he knows how to help them start.

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