Harvey Langi walks alongside his wife, Cassidy, who is pushing their newborn son in a stroller across the Jets’ practice fields.

The linebacker has a smile on his face. Another hot, tough practice has ended. For some of his teammates, the monotony of training camp can be tough to take. Days blend together. Drills are repeated over and over. Coaches yell. It can wear on players.

Not Langi.

The 26-year-old and his wife survived a horrific car accident in 2017 that left them happy to be alive and with a different outlook on life and football.

“My perspective has changed completely,” Langi said Thursday just after practice. “You don’t ever think those stories are going to happen to you, and then it happened to me, my wife and I, my family. The most important things to me were at stake at the time. Nothing else mattered. Then you come back to playing football and all this stuff, you’re like, ‘Gosh, man, how lucky am I to come out here and play ball?’ First off, we’ll take being alive.”

Langi went undrafted out of BYU in 2017 and signed as a free agent with the Patriots. He made the team out of training camp and saw game action in Week 2 against the Saints, making a tackle.

A few weeks later, his career was in doubt.

On Oct. 13, 2017, Harvey and Cassidy were driving home from a restaurant when they stopped at a red light in Foxborough. A Jeep Grand Cherokee plowed into their Mazda3 from behind at more than 50 miles per hour. The Jeep driver had an open container of alcohol and three different prescription drugs in his car, according to police.

Harvey and Cassidy have no memory of the accident, but they have seen pictures and heard stories. Cassidy broke both hips, six pelvic bones, eight ribs, sustained a concussion and needed 15 staples to close wounds in her head. Harvey suffered knee injuries. The rescue workers had to cut through the roof of the car to extract him.

Harvey and Cassidy were taken to different hospitals and did not see each other for three days. During that time apart, both just wanted to see one another.

“That was all that was on my mind,” Harvey said. “Being alive was good enough for me. Football wasn’t on my mind until after I knew both of us were OK.”

Harvey walked into Cassidy’s hospital room three days after the accident on crutches and stayed by her side for the next 10 days. It would be around six months before Cassidy would feel normal again. Normally a very active person, Cassidy was immobile.

“My injuries together were the most uncomfortable thing. I could never get comfortable,” Cassidy said. “I was just on bedrest, just miserable. I knew I was driving everyone crazy because I was so depressed. All I could do was sit there.”

Harvey does not like to discuss the injuries he sustained. He said he is now fully recovered. He returned to football last year with the Patriots, but was cut at the end of training camp. The Jets signed him to their practice squad in October and then to a reserve/future contract in January.

Langi has impressed early in training camp, getting some reps with the starting defense and catching the coaches’ eyes. Jets defensive coordinator Gregg Williams kidded him when he saw him doing an interview Thursday. “You talk more out here than in the meeting room,” Williams said.

Cassidy gave birth to their first child, a son named Rad Hikule’o, six weeks ago. Cassidy and the baby are a constant at Jets practice, watching Harvey try to make the team.

“I think we’re just really blessed,” Cassidy said. “Walking and just being able to be here almost two years later … he’s playing football again and we have a baby. I feel extremely blessed.”

Harvey said he never could have imagined going through what they did together, but now he values his new perspective.

“Of course we all have the love for the game,” Langi says of his teammates. “Of course we all have the passion or we wouldn’t be at this level. But, man, when you go through a life-threatening experience like that, you just come out here and go, ‘Gosh, I’m running around with C.J. Mosley. I have pads on, cleats on again.’ I used to have to roll around on crutches. It’s just cool. It’s another testament to hard work, faith and knowing that things are going to bring you down but you have to keep going.”