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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets are wanting noticeably totally different today. Not solely does the roster embrace many new faces, most notably quarterback Justin Fields, however the locker room itself is new, because of an excessive makeover in the course of the five-week break earlier than coaching camp.
The gamers can loosen up, gown for apply and get well afterwards in a state-of-the-art locker room that features 92 custom-made lockers (weighing 1,000 kilos apiece) at their year-round apply facility, the Atlantic Well being Jets Coaching Heart.
Gone are the shabby, short-term lockers for practice-squad gamers that blocked site visitors. Every new locker includes a video display screen that gamers can use to evaluate performs, watch highlights or obtain messages from first-year coach Aaron Glenn. The Jets are the primary professional or NCAA workforce with lockers that characteristic a totally automated video show, in keeping with the workforce.
Wait, there's extra. Every locker comes with a customized seat, a USB port, cool storage compartments and three followers — not the cheering form, however digital ones that can dry sweaty tools after apply.
-230 sq. foot 3D Jets emblem
-sauna with a sound system
-barbershop with refurbished chairs from the Nineteen Fiftiesonly some of the main points within the new locker room pic.twitter.com/VkRAHfKgK7
— New York Jets (@nyjets) July 22, 2025
Lookup! Hanging from the ceiling is a 230-square foot, three-dimensional Jets emblem, illuminated by 500 lights and weighing in at 2,000 kilos.
If a participant needs a haircut or a shave earlier than heading house, he can cease by the brand new barber studio. Outfitted with two refurbished barber chairs and an old style barber pole (inexperienced and white, after all), the studio provides an old-school contact to the ability.
“It is such as you're in a complete new space,” defensive sort out Quinnen Williams stated on Tuesday. “It is like if you renovate your home and also you stroll into your home for the primary time. It is unbelievable. I have been right here six years, after which this yr, I get a brand new locker room.”
The Jets moved into the ability in 2008, again when Eric Mangini was the top coach and Brett Favre was the quarterback. However this marks the primary main renovation, and it got here only some months after the group took heavy criticism in an anonymous player survey carried out by the NFL Gamers Affiliation. The gamers gave their locker room a D-plus grade, which ranked twenty sixth within the league, and proprietor Woody Johnson acquired an F, the bottom amongst possession.
secure to say the blokes like the brand new locker room pic.twitter.com/TFTccZZD5I
— New York Jets (@nyjets) July 22, 2025
The Jets say they'd been planning the renovation earlier than the NFLPA report card turned public, however they did not begin the work till the conclusion of minicamp in mid-June. The gamers acquired a pleasant shock upon reporting to coaching camp on Tuesday.
“It is tremendous dope,” Williams stated.
