{"id":165117,"date":"2026-03-16T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:26:22","slug":"mission-was-a-little-incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165117\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission was ‘a little incomplete’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demario Davis<\/a> hopes the third time is the charm in New York.<\/p>\n

The Jets’ third-round pick in 2012 spent his first four seasons with Gang Green before signing a two-year contract in Cleveland in 2016. After one year with the Browns, he was traded back to New York in 2017. The hard-nosed linebacker then signed a free-agent deal with the New Orleans Saints in 2018, where he’s spent the past eight seasons, gobbling up tackles and earning two Pro Bowl nods.<\/p>\n

Davis inked a two-year, $22 million contract with the Jets this offseason as part of New York’s heavy investment in proven veterans, aimed at turning around an off-track locker room.<\/p>\n

Last week, Davis said he’s “grateful” to be back in New York and added that he believes in “what’s being built” under coach Aaron Glenn.<\/p>\n

“Leaving here, I felt the mission personally was a little incomplete,” Davis said Thursday, via the team\u2019s official website<\/a>. “This is my third time around, but this time I come back very different, very purposeful, very clear on vision, on who I am.<\/p>\n

“This wasn’t a happenstance situation. This was a choice, knowing who I am and what I am called to be. I know what I’m stepping into this time around. I know what I’m bringing into a locker room. I know I play the game at an elite level. I know every year I’m trying to play better than the prior year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demario Davis hopes the third time is the charm in New York. The Jets’ third-round pick in 2012…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8451,57949,9,24,55,54,430,12,6676,56,67385],"class_list":["post-165117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-demario-davis","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-jets","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-ny","tag-offseason-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}