Micheal Clemons paused and thought about the question.

“What do I want to show?” he said, repeating the question to himself. “That the Jets got a f–king monster. That’s what I want to show.”

The team’s young hulking defensive end certainly has a way with words.

Clemons has high hopes for himself after a quality rookie season in which he had 2.5 sacks in 16 games and notched 36 tackles and four tackles for loss.

The coaching staff feels the same way.

“Mike, I love his demeanor, his intent. He’s a very violent football player, very violent man, which you want,” coach Robert Saleh said on Sunday. “Cool thing about him is he knows how to turn it off off the field, but I just love the progress he’s made. He’s gotten bigger, he’s gotten stronger.”

Clemons, the team’s fourth-round pick a year ago, went viral on the first day of training camp when the chiseled lineman arrived without a shirt on, donning sunglasses and clutching a bat wrapped in barbed wire an homage to “The Walking Dead” television show.

On it, one of the characters wields a similar bat he calls “Lucille.”

Asked about the bat and where he got it, Clemons said: “I know a guy,” drawing laughs.

Told about the reaction it got on social media from Jets fans, Clemons didn’t care to go too much into the subject, and declined to say if the bat is still in the facility.

“I just be me, and if you like it, you like it, if you don’t, you don’t,” he said. “I just be myself. … I just do me, I don’t think about it too much.”

He is eager to take a step forward this year.

So far in training camp, the Jets are using him inside at times, following in the footsteps of starting defensive end John Franklin-Myers.

The Jets believe Clemons is strong enough to play on the interior, now that he is up to 285 pounds.

“John has been doing this for a few years now, before I got here,” he said. “He passes advice to me all the time. He’s going to help me out the best way he can.”

Nobody suggested Clemons bring that barbed-wire bat on the opening day of camp.

That was completely his idea.

He sure looked imposing with it.

Now he wants to strike fear in opposing offensive lines.