Here are five interesting, perhaps even buzzworthy, storylines we heard directly from the mouths of Jets players during their first week of training camp.

CB Brandon Stephens on the impact the Jets’ three free-agent defensive pillars can have …
Brandon Stephens, the sixth-year veteran NFL starter, appreciated a question about if Demario Davis, Minkah Fitzpatrick and David Onyemata can lead the Jets’ culture to the next level.

“They have played winning football, they’ve been in the league for a long time, so they know what it looks like,” Stephens said. “When you bring guys that have been in the league for a long time and know what good culture is, wherever they’ve been from, whether that was playing high-level football in college or in the NFL, it does something to us overall. Just having that leadership in the room, it just gives everybody else confidence, and especially the way that they work.

“At the same time, we’re trying to build confidence in ourselves each and every day. But obviously having veterans like that, man, it’s easy to go [all-out] for them.” (Fill in your favorite four-word football phrase for “all-out” between the brackets.)

Jeremy Ruckert on the crowd of first-rounders in the TEs room …
One might think that with tight ends selected in the first round the past two drafts, the TE taken in Round 3 four years ago might feel like he’s down for the count. But that’s not the way Jeremy Ruckert rolls.

“This year I was actually at an event, hosting a draft party,” Ruckert said of the April draft that brought the Jets  Kenyon Sadiq in Round 1 one year after they drafted Mason Taylor. “it seems like everyone else has an opinion of it, more than I do. I’m confident in myself, I’m confident that I’m here for a reason, and once we start rolling and once we start playing, we’re going to try and show the offense that we can all be on the field at the same time. As far as the reaction goes on draft night, I didn’t really hear much of it. You have friends and family trying to check in on you, see how you’re doing.

“I just got extended last year. I’m excited to be here. I really rock with AG, I rock with everything that’s going on, and like I said, I’m confident in myself and the direction that we’re going.”