Breece Hall felt like he and the Jets had a good couple of joint practices with the Giants.

"We performed really good," Hall said of his offense following the final session with Big Blue on Wednesday. "We're leaning on the running game right now, and that's been fun. We're still getting better, we still make mistakes, we're still cleaning stuff up. But it's been fun."

What also could be fun for Hall is getting his fresh start in the offense of first-year head coach Aaron Glenn and first-year OC Tanner Engstrand. Hall has had three very good seasons in green and white, but last season didn't rise to the level he and Jets Nation may have wanted it to, and he appears ready to shake off '24 and take off as RB1 in the Jets' three-headed RB by committee in '25.

"I just feel like last season, stuff doesn't always work out the way you expect it to," he said. "When you're one of the better players, one of the faces on the team and stuff doesn't go well all the time, you're at the forefront of, not the blame, but stuff falls on you a little bit. I happened to be one of those players. But for me, nothing's changed. I'm still the same threat I've always been."

And perhaps even a little more so in the passing game, where Hall plus second-year backs Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis are being used by Engstrand as targets, whether it be out of the backfield, in the slot, or even, dare we say, split wide?

"It's been cool," Hall said. "For me it's been not stressful but it's been fun to split out some plays. There have been formations where I've been the single receiver on the side, try and mess with the defense and see how they adjust to it. But it's been cool, it's been fun."

And why wouldn't it be a hoot? Hall in less than three full NFL seasons has already established himself as potentially among the most versatile backs in the league as well as in franchise history.

"I'm very much so still a running back," he said. "But when you have a back that can catch, whether it's a [Christian] McCaffrey, a Saquon [Barkley], a Jahmyr Gibbs, a Bijan Robinson, obviously you want to exploit a matchup, and if you can split him out and get him the ball, then do that."

No. 20 also remains a big rush waiting to burst, although there were a few reasons that his per-carry average dipped to a career-low 4.2 yards last year.

Yet he still broke a 42-yard run off his left side in Week 6 against Buffalo and a 57-yard reception (55 YAC) the next week at Pittsburgh. The 57-yarder was of historical significance, since it broke a tie that Hall held with the legendary Freeman McNeil for most 50-yard scrimmage plays by a back in a Jets career. The top five RBs in half-field explosions:

As was apparent with some of his responses during his Wednesday media availability, last season's struggles are not all in his rearview this summer/ Among the coaching tips he's applying to his game is Glenn's guidance to not listen to the "noise outside the building."

"I definitely think last year it affected me a little bit, especially with what we were going through, I was playing hurt, things like that," he said. "With the New York media, I've learned that one good game, they love you, one game you don't play as well as you think you can, they hate you, they want you traded, whatever the case may be.

"For me, it's just about staying grounded. And my whole life, all my coaches have told me to do the little things and let your natural talent take over. So that's what I'm sticking to doing."