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Veteran Jets lineman fighting to stay off chopping block

Willie Colon is certain he will know the feeling when it arrives. That time, though, has not arrived. Not yet.

When you’re 32, entering your 10th NFL season, have started all 94 games you’ve played and are a member of a roster that — under a new coaching and management regime — is getting younger, it would have been easy for the Jets’ incumbent right guard to feel the tug of retirement this past offseason.

“I never want to go home and sit on the couch and wonder, ‘Maybe I could have done this better. Maybe I could have prepared a little better;’ I never wanted that feeling,’’ Colon told The Post this week during a break in the Jets’ organized team activity (OTA) practice.