Le’Veon Bell was back on the football field Thursday as a member of the Jets and looked and sounded like he is feeling good.

Bell said he felt so strong on Wednesday that he ran the team’s conditioning test twice. Then on Thursday, he looked strong at practice, highlighted by a long run after a screen pass from Sam Darnold. Bell had a league-high 406 touches with the Steelers in 2017. After a year away, he said he’s ready for more.

“I’m up for 500 if it’s going to take us to the Super Bowl,” Bell joked. “It don’t matter how many touches I get. I’m just trying to win games. If I have 19 touches and we win the Super Bowl, you think I’d care? I just want to go out there and do what I can to help this team win games.”

The Jets signed Bell to a four-year, $52.2 million contract after he sat out last season in a contract dispute with the Steelers. He was asked if he expects to return to the form that made him one of the best running backs in football.

“I expect to be better,” Bell said. “I don’t want to just say I’m going to be how I was two years ago. Each and every year I feel like I want to be a better player. I’m confident. I feel like I’m healthy. I’m just ready to go out there and perform.”

Even though Bell is eager to go, he knows the Jets coaches may hold him back to be cautious in camp and the preseason. Jets coach Adam Gase has not revealed his plan yet for how much, if at all, Bell will play in the preseason.

“Me personally, I feel good, but I’m sure the coaches are going to do what’s necessary for me,” Bell said. “They’re going to protect me and make sure I get through the season, make sure everything’s healthy. I’m going to be working with them and doing what they tell me to do, but I feel good.”

Bell said he is happy to playing for Gase.

“He’s a mastermind on offense,” Bell said.

Bell was in the headlines last month when it came out that he had been robbed in May of more than $500,000 in jewelry by two women identified as his “girlfriends.”

“Everything got handled,” Bell said. “I’m fine. It was frustrating when it happened, but I’m OK.”

He said he did not get his jewelry back, but it was insured.