Quinnen Williams remembers how his older brother, Quincy, tried to play like former NFL safety Kam Chancellor, among others, growing up.

Quincy Williams met linebacker Ray Lewis at Topgolf around a recent Super Bowl and “almost passed out with joy.”

Quincy Williams always wanted to emulate the players who made the powerful hits.

The ones who made the key plays.

It took time to reach that point — and a fresh start with the Jets that began in 2021 after two seasons with the Jaguars — but Quincy Williams, now a Jets linebacker and teammate of his younger brother, has inched closer to that point by recording 39 tackles, four tackles for loss and four passes defended through the first four weeks this season.

This past week, defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said “there’s not a better backer in the NFL right now.”

“To see that he’s having the start that he’s having now is super,” Quinnen Williams told The Post on Friday. “I know for him, it’s making his confidence get higher, making his spirit level get higher. Just giving him, I guess, the ammunition to say like, ‘I can be one of the best linebackers in this league for years to come.’ Not just this year.”

Before Quinnen signed his four-year, $96 million extension, Quincy inked a three-year deal to remain with the Jets through 2025. Quinnen said his brother tried to learn more this offseason and position himself for additional accomplishments in 2023.

So far, Quinnen said, he has noticed a blend of strong hits that force negative yards and sideline-to-sideline coverage — traits comparable to the 49ers’ Fred Warner (a “missile”) and Dre Greenlaw, the Bills’ Matt Milano and the Jets’ C.J. Mosley.

“Having Quincy up there with those great names is amazing for him for sure,” Quinnen said, “but it’s amazing to see as his brother, as his teammate that everything is coming to fruition that he wished for and hoped for and worked his butt off to get.”

During the 2019 draft, when Quincy was selected in the third round by the Jaguars, Jets head coach Robert Saleh, then the 49ers’ defensive coordinator, had him listed as a Day 3 target.

Then Jacksonville general manager David Caldwell’s decision “came with some questions,” Saleh said Friday, and those only continued when Quincy started eight games his rookie season and then was released prior to the 2021 campaign.

Saleh called Quinnen to gauge his thoughts about the Jets potentially signing his brother. Quinnen supported it as long as the signing helped the Jets improve. If the signing didn’t make them better, then they shouldn’t do it, he recalled telling Saleh.

Quincy started 13 games for the Jets in 2021 and then another 15 last year. Saleh thought his system was the right fit for Quincy, and after working with linebackers coach Mike Rutenberg, Quincy’s performance started to pay dividends.

And at one point, between the low of Quincy getting released and the high of what his 2023 campaign could become, Saleh sent Caldwell, now with the Eagles, a text: “Hey man, you were right.”