With the NFL’s free agency feeding frenzy cooling down while next week’s draft is heating up, the Jets will take one more step in their 2026 reset in head coach Aaron Glenn’s uber-important second season at the Green & White helm with the start of the team’s voluntary workout schedule on Monday in Florham Park. All the Jets on the roster so far are feeling the edge and the excitement of taking even a small step like the first gathering of spring.
Just ask someone who’s been there a few times over his three Jets incarnations: LB Demario Davis.
“I think AG’s preaching all the right messages,” Davis said as he prepares to start his next go-round wearing the green and white as his highlight-reel NFL career enters its 15th year. “And it sounds like there’s a locker room of guys who have bought into what he’s coaching. We’re just being brought in to help reinforce that. If anything, use our voices to turn up the volume because at the end of the day, ships go into daylight because you hold on and you hold steady through the storm, and that’s all we need to do.”
This year’s “storm” begins serenely enough with the start for all NFL teams of Phase One and the first two weeks of the program, with activities limited to meetings, strength and conditioning, and physical rehabilitation only.
Phase Two runs for the succeeding three weeks. On-field workouts can include individual and group instruction and drills as well as “perfect-play drills,” and drills and plays with offensive players lining up across from offensive players and defensive players lining up across from defensive players, conducted at a walk-through pace. No live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills are permitted.
Finally, Phase Three consists of the last four weeks of the program, during which teams may conduct 10 days of organized team activity or OTAs. No live contact is permitted, but 7-on-7, 9-on-7 and 11-on-11 drills are permitted.
The Jets’ OTA workouts are scheduled for May 27-29 and June 1-2, 4 and 8-11, and their Phase Three activities will conclude with a full-squad mandatory minicamp on June 16-18. Next stop after that minicamp: Training camp in July.
Glenn at the NFL Annual League Meeting in Phoenix talked about some of the fruits of self-reflection about last season that he wants to implement this season, with players beginning to feel that focus as soon as Phases Two and Three.