Cornerback · New York Jets

Azareye'h Thomas

No. 1 · 2nd season

Thomas took the number. He knows what comes with it.

A number on a jersey is just fabric. Until it isn't.

Azareye'h Thomas is a cornerback for the New York Jets, now wearing No. 1 — the same number Sauce Gardner wore before the Jets traded him to the Indianapolis Colts. Gardner was the face of that defense, the best cornerback on the roster, and the number people associated with him. Thomas knows all of that.

He said so himself. Wearing No. 1, he's acknowledged, brings a different set of expectations with it.

That's not a throwaway line. It's a cornerback, new to the spotlight his team just cleared, telling you he understands exactly what he stepped into. The number is a question the Jets are asking him to answer.

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