FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets are wanting noticeably totally different as of late. Not solely does the roster embody many new faces, most notably quarterback Justin Fields, however the locker room itself is new, due to an excessive makeover in the course of the five-week break earlier than coaching camp.
The gamers can loosen up, costume for follow and recuperate afterwards in a state-of-the-art locker room that features 92 custom-made lockers (weighing 1,000 kilos apiece) at their year-round follow facility, the Atlantic Well being Jets Coaching Middle.
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 assessment performs, watch highlights or obtain messages from first-year coach Aaron Glenn. The Jets are the primary professional or NCAA staff with lockers that function a completely automated video show, in keeping with the staff.
Wait, there’s extra. Every locker comes with a customized seat, a USB port, cool storage compartments and three followers — not the cheering variety, however digital ones that can dry sweaty gear after follow.
-230 sq. foot 3D Jets brand
-sauna with a sound system
-barbershop with refurbished chairs from the Nineteen Fiftiesjust a few of the small print 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 brand, illuminated by 500 lights and weighing in at 2,000 kilos.
If a participant desires 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, in fact), the studio provides an old-school contact to the ability.
“It is such as you’re in an entire new space,” defensive deal with 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 pinnacle coach and Brett Favre was the quarterback. However this marks the primary main renovation, and it got here just a few months after the group took heavy criticism in an nameless participant survey performed 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 obtained 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 that they had been planning the renovation earlier than the NFLPA report card grew to become public, however they did not begin the work till the conclusion of minicamp in mid-June. The gamers obtained a pleasant shock upon reporting to coaching camp on Tuesday.
“It is tremendous dope,” Williams stated.