When the Jets take the field on Thursday for their first training camp practice, all eyes will drift to the man wearing No. 24.

Darrelle Revis is back.

After two seasons away, the Jets’ franchise player is back in the fold wearing the jersey that only seems to fit him. Two years ago at this time, running back John Griffin was wearing No. 24. Last year, soon-to-be-AWOL cornerback Dmitri Patterson had the jersey on. Both of them, and all the others who wore the number, looked like imposters.

But general manager Mike Maccagnan made sure Revis would be back in the green and white 24 in March when he signed the star cornerback to a five-year, $70 million contract with $39 million guaranteed, just hours after the Patriots allowed Revis to become a free agent.

“I had a number of teams call, a number of teams willing to fly down to my place [in Florida] and convince me that we could contend for a championship,” Revis said recently. “[The Jets were] the best fit, the right fit for me. I don’t know if any organization is better than this one. Coming back here is where I feel most comfortable, where I feel at home, where I can be myself.”

The Packers, Steelers and Chiefs were among the teams that called to express interest in Revis, who set his sights on the Jets. Critics will scoff at the idea Revis wanted to return to the Jets, pointing instead to the check owner Woody Johnson cut as the reason for the reunion. Certainly the contract sealed the deal, but Revis genuinely seems happy to be back with the organization that drafted him in 2007 and in New York City, a place he fell in love with during his first six years in the NFL.

“I have a lot of ties to this place,” Revis said.

Two years ago, or even 10 months ago, this all would have seemed unimaginable. Former Jets GM John Idzik traded Revis to the Buccaneers in April 2013. Depending on whom you believe, that trade either came on Johnson’s order or just his blessing. Either way, it appeared Revis’ Jets career was over. He seemed to seal that when he said Idzik lied to him about the possibility of a trade.

When the Buccaneers released Revis in 2014, his representatives reached out to the Jets about a reunion then, but Idzik was not interested. Revis joined the rival Patriots instead and won a Super Bowl. The Jets went 4-12 and Johnson saw enough to fire Idzik and coach Rex Ryan. At the press conference announcing those firings, Johnson answered a question about Revis honestly, saying he would love to bring him back. That answer got him a $100,000 tampering fine from the league, but showed Revis’ camp the door was open.

Three months later, the Patriots declined to pick up an option for the second year of Revis’ deal and he became a free agent. Revis said he was not worried about any lingering animosity with Johnson.

“It wasn’t [Johnson],” Revis said of the decision to send him out of New York in the first place. “He’s a businessman and he’s going to make the best decisions he can and bring the best players in here or bring the right players in here to contend. It wasn’t him. It was the general manager. What I was told by Idzik wasn’t accurate. But that’s a whole other story.

“I never had anything against Mr. Johnson.”

Revis returns to the Jets with a Super Bowl ring and the desire to add a few more.

“When you taste it, you want to taste it again and again and again,” Revis said. “That’s what we play this game for. That’s why we’re here. We’re here to win and win big.”

Revis was a huge part of the Jets teams in 2009 and ’10 that lost in the AFC Championship game. Most of his teammates from then are gone, but he looks around at Nick Mangold, D’Brickashaw Ferguson and David Harris and says it is on them to teach the younger guys about winning.

“We know how to win,” Revis said. “We just have to have the right chemistry and have guys willing to work. We’ve got to pull that out of guys and make sure we set the example the right way.”

Playing for Bill Belichick taught him a few things last year, lessons he hopes to teach the Jets, lessons he hopes can get them past those Patriots.

“There’s a consistency level up there where they teach you to be perfect when you cut, you move, you do whatever in a particular play. It’s being dead on,” Revis said. “That’s how they coach. That’s how the players respond. The experience up there was great. Now I’m back here where I’ll be playing against them twice a year.”

When those games come, you can bet Tom Brady will be well aware of where No. 24 in green and white is lined up.