The Jets’ defense was out of sorts. At one point during practice Monday, everyone was stacked to one side. The play was going to be a run the other way. That was when Jordan Whitehead spoke up.

“He commanded them to move over, push them over,” cornerback Bryce Hall said Tuesday, “and then he made a tackle for loss on top of that.”

Just a handful of practices into his tenure with the Jets, Whitehead has become a voice the rest of the defense can listen to and respect. He has championship experience, which most of the Jets don’t have. Their young players can listen to Whitehead and learn from him.

“Oh, he’s awesome, man,” said Hall, who is entering his second season in the league. “I think he’s a really good communicator, and another thing is, he’s a really good problem-solver. And I think that’s what you look for in safeties is somebody to be a problem-solver.

“When things don’t go well, how do you get us out of a tricky situation? I think he does a really good job of doing that, and you appreciate somebody playing like that as a corner.”

Whitehead — a safety who signed a two-year, $14.5 million contract in March — and Hall are both 25. But there is no question one can learn from the other. Whitehead won a Super Bowl and was part of another deep playoff run with the Buccaneers. He has been a part of games and moments that the Jets are still dreaming of — and is unafraid to lend his voice to the cause of helping them get there.

“Every once in a while in free agency, a guy slips, but you don’t expect those guys to get out of the building, ever,” head coach Robert Saleh said. “His locker room presence, his voice on the football field, his cadence pre-snap, his instinct and reactions post-snap, the jolt of energy he brings. He’s phenomenal.”

When Whitehead began his NFL career in 2018 as a fourth-round pick, he joined a franchise adrift. Tampa Bay went 5-11 that season, firing Dirk Koetter as their head coach.

Then, with the help of new head coach Bruce Arians and Tom Brady, the Buccaneers built a winner. More than that, they built a winning culture.

“You could tell the difference once we started winning,” Whitehead said last week. “Just the guys in the locker room, outside of the football field, chemistry off the field, played a big part of it. The DB group with the Bucs, we were young so we got that chemistry with each other and once we got that, things started to click better.”

What about the Jets, who by any measure are about as far from playoff contenders as a team can be?

“We’re picking up fast,” Whitehead said. “Guys in the locker room are great guys. Everybody is friends. We’re in this together.”

The Jets’ defensive system, he said, is similar to the one Todd Bowles deployed as Buccaneers defensive coordinator (Bowles is now head coach), at least in how they deploy their safeties. The Jets’ other defensive backs — he singled out corner D.J. Reed in particular — ask questions constantly. All of this promises progress.

Even Zach Wilson has taken notice of Whitehead’s impact.

“You can definitely see a different element coming from Jordan,” Wilson said Tuesday. “He’s a really good player. You think of a three-deep [coverage] and you think, OK, he’s supposed to be deep, he’s out of the picture, these intermediate routes, we’re playing off of backers but he does a great job of understanding field position. And understanding when there isn’t a deep threat and he’s able to come up and help on those intermediate routes.

“Quarterbacks don’t see that a lot of the time. And so he does a great job of trying to steal some of those and makes pictures cloudy for us, and then he really is a ballhawk of being able to run sideline to sideline back there.”

For a quarterback, Wilson said, everything is about feeling space. Whitehead takes that space away.

“When things don’t go well, how do you get us out of a tricky situation?” Hall asked. “I think he does a really good job of doing that.”