Mekhi Becton’s 1-year-old son will not understand when his father tells him the news he learned Tuesday.

But when asked about what it means to him to start at right tackle for the Jets — a promotion announced Tuesday ahead of the team’s third preseason game, which will be Saturday against the Giants — Becton talked about Mekhi Jr.

“It’s been a lot of rocky things going on in my life,” Becton, the Jets’ 2020 first-round pick, said. “The best thing that happened for me over these last few years is my son. That’s pretty much it. He’s the reason why I keep driving and pushing to where I’m at right now, never giving up. That’s why I’m where I’m at right now.”

Being selected to start is not just important for Becton, but also is vital for the Jets.

The offensive line has been a major problem throughout camp, one that has threatened to derail all the momentum of the offseason.

Right tackle in particular has been problematic, with 2022 fourth-round pick Max Mitchell failing to grab onto the job.

This is Becton’s chance, and if he takes advantage, it might mean a Week 1 start, which would be his first in a regular-season game since Sept. 12, 2021.

There is a long way to go before that, and switching from left to right tackle has been more complicated than it looks on paper.

But the Jets are placing their hope in Becton’s health and ability, and it is on him to deliver.

“I think he’s on board, he’s excited, he wants to play,” head coach Robert Saleh said. “I think he’s in a really good place.”

Becton said the game last Saturday against Tampa Bay, in which he played 25 snaps of right tackle, was a step in the right direction.

“I felt actually real comfortable where I was at,” Becton said. “I felt good, I would say. I was pretty key on where my hands are at, where I’m at on my spot and stuff like that. I felt great.”

Saleh noticed not just his play, but a positive demeanor off the field.

“He was finishing blocks,” Saleh said. “Showed athleticism, strength, power, movement. Lot of things he still has to clean up. But he showed, especially — it’s a little thing — but it’s everything pregame. His language, his voice, the bounce in his step, the things people aren’t seeing cause they’re so fixated on what he’s doing on the field.”

That is intrinsically important, both to the Jets’ chances of putting together an offensive line worthy of Aaron Rodgers and to Becton’s chance of being a part of it.

Nothing is sealed yet as far as a Week 1 start, let alone beyond that.

But Rodgers himself believes in Becton, and had lunch with him Monday at the team cafeteria.

“I like Mekhi a lot,” Rodgers said. “I think he’s a guy that, just like all of us, we all want to feel like we belong. … Whether by his own doing or just the way things fell, he might not have felt that way. It’s normal. When you’re on injured reserve — and I’ve been a couple times — it’s a tough place to be cause you feel isolated from the team. You’re not maybe traveling as much, you’re not in the meetings.

“So I think it’s been a conscious effort by all of us to make him feel like he’s a part of this thing. He’s so talented, he’s humongous and he’s athletic for a man who’s 6-[foot]-8, 350 [pounds]. And so I’m excited about seeing him out there.”

And Becton got to tell his son some good news on Tuesday.

And sometimes, that is worth celebrating.