Jason Witten is back with the Dallas Cowboys, and he is loving every second of it.

The future Hall-of-Fame tight end retired from football at the end of the 2017 campaign and spent all of this past season working in the booth as a commentator for Monday Night Football, but now, he is back with the Cowboys:

“I'm loving it,” Witten said, according to Todd Archer of ESPN.com. “I'm invigorated by the process of going back in there. I really feel like obviously I've got a lot of energy coming back in there. I'm excited, and I think you just get back in there. That's what I've enjoyed the most, getting with the guys, start looking at some tape and working out with Coach [Mike] Woicik and the strength staff some.”

Witten is so excited that he feels like a child on Christmas morning:

“There's been nothing like it,” he said. “I feel like a little kid when my car pulls in. I'm looking forward to the next six, seven months.”

Of course, the 37-year-old will likely not have the same role as he did back in 2017 when he played in 98 percent of the team's offensive snaps, especially considering that Dallas now has young tight end Blake Jarwin on the roster.

Still, Witten is just happy to be back:

“I said it when I retired a year ago: I don't know that anybody really knows when it's their time to go. And I was no different,” Witten said. “Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective. I saw the league from a different point of view in getting the opportunity to go see 31 other teams and how they build their team and go about it. But at the same time, I saw the Cowboys team start to come together and a lot of stars and young stars that love the game, and when [team owner] Jerry [Jones] presented me that opportunity to come back, I was just extremely excited. I think more than anything else, it was just something that was tugging on me inside to say that maybe there's something still inside left to go out there and go after that championship.”

If Witten can return to form, the Cowboys should have plenty of reliable weapons on offense.