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Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

Hey, Abby Miller with the reflector at Mississippi State. Last year, the belt became a really quick trend. What kind of just does that mean and do you plan on bringing that back this year?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like it was just something for us to come together as a fan base and as a team this past year. But I tend to bring it, you know, back in a positive light. I've been trying to build a foundation of be thankful. Always out of bta, left side, second row.

Sports Reporter

John Eads, wafb. Key one. It seemed like you and Lane Kiffin were pretty close when you were together at Ole Miss. What kind of coach is LSU getting?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

They're getting a great coach.

Audience Member/Moderator

Front row.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

Well, nice answer. Michael Kavala from Baton Rouge, wbrz. What is it going to take to focus solely on the game when week three does roll around here?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like it just takes, you know, will be already, you know, no, just preparation work being dialed in

Audience Member/Moderator

on the aisle. Second Rowan.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

Hello again, David Edelstein, sports director at WJTV in Jackson. What does it mean for you guys to have, you know, yourself on the football game, video game cover and go through that process and kind of be showcased in that kind of way, you know, real football, obviously success, but then having the, the virtual kind of world want to put you as the face.

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like it's a blessing, you know, to be able to represent my school and, you know, my teammates. Then Also just being able to show light on Ole Miss and the program and of course, just the school front row.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

Again, I know you're an offensive guy, but what does Pete mean to you? You know, and as. As real as he likes to keep it. Like, how much do you appreciate that?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I appreciate that a lot. You know, having PG as a coach, you just know what you're going to get. You know, he's the same guy, you know, every day, no matter who's in front of him. So just knowing that just gives me, like, so much respect for him. Then it's just easy to play for a coach like that who's going to keep it real with you.

Audience Member/Moderator

Third row on the aisle.

Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

It seems like you and Trinidad have grown a close relationship throughout your time at Ole Miss. Can you kind of explain what this Heisman campaign that Ole Miss athletics has going on, what that is?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

Yeah, of course. Me and Trinidad have a great relationship. We came in at the same time basically, you know, with no experience, and we both played throughout the whole season. So just being through the journey together, then having the Heisman campaign together, I feel like it's just, you know, amazing having him by my side and us pushing each other to be the best we can be, you know what I'm saying? To reach our goals.

Audience Member/Moderator

Left side on the arrow.

Sports Reporter

What'd you like about playing in Charlie Weiss Jr. S offense last year?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like the best thing I took out of that was, you know, his offense was fun. There was a lot of explosives, and they like to have fun and do different things in their offense. So I say, like, I like that the most.

Audience Member/Moderator

On the aisle here on the right, Travis Tyndall, espn.

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

Austin Kewan.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

What is your favorite thing about playing at Ole Miss?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

My favorite thing about playing at Ole Miss, I'll say, is just the culture and the fans. Like, once you walk into that stadium, I feel like it's just. It's no other feeling, you know what I'm saying, of going out there and playing with, you know, the guys you love and then having an amazing fan base like Ole Miss front row.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

Are you at all worried about splitting votes with Trinidad for that Heisman campaign and what it could do to somebody's, you know, campaign, and then just what does he mean to you? You know, to have a quarterback that is as dual natured as he is and kind of that success story?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

He means a lot to me. I feel like, you know, even if I, you know, I'm saying if I win or he wins, I feel like we're both going to win. You know, I'm saying, like it's not a competition with us. I feel like the main goal is always going to be the main goal and that's to push each other to be the best we could be because, you know, that's going to put us in the best position, you know, as a team, you know, to, to get

Audience Member/Moderator

what we want back on the aisle.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

Kevon, how do you guys follow up the success that you all had last year and set goals as a team as you look forward to a whole new season?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like how we set that up would be just, you know, taking the key points that we got from last year, just being mentally and physically prepared to go out there and being dialed in throughout the week. I feel like it starts in summer training is when the season starts. So just keeping everybody locked in and having the main goal being the main goal in everybody's mind.

Audience Member/Moderator

Right side on the aisle.

Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

With Winnie Walkins transferring to LSU with coach Kiffin, what is it going to be like playing against him this year instead of with him like you're used to?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like it's going to be a very competitive game, but, you know, I feel like it's just another game on the schedule.

Leo Hagerty (Amped Up Sports Draft Nation)

Third row, Leo Hagerty. Amped up sports draft nation here in Tampa. Obviously team goals are at the top of your list, but what one or two individual goals do you have set for yourself to get to those team goals?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I'll say one goal of mine is of course the Heisman. Then I want, you know, 2,000 all purpose yards. That's one of my goals. But I feel like just me being the best I could be is going to help my team.

Audience Member/Moderator

On the end, Second row, your former

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running backs coach, Kevin Smith. What makes him unique, special?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like just the type of person he is. He's a very unique guy. He's very outgoing and hands on. So I feel like, you know, any player that gets him as a coach is, you know, very blessed.

Audience Member/Moderator

Second roll in the aisle.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

What do you make of the nine game SEC schedule and if that changes anything for this conference as you guys look to make it back into the playoffs and prove yourself among, you know, tough competition.

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

I feel like just playing in sec, it's tough. So you know what I mean. Whatever game is on there, you got to play regardless.

Audience Member/Moderator

Second row on the end, Caitlin Jackson, sec.

Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

There's a lot of talk obviously at Heisman, the extraordinary season from last year, how you followed up, but at the

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

end of the day, what do you

Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

feel like your why is coming into this season?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

My why? I'll just. I'll say I feel like God gives everybody a purpose in life and he pushes them to, you know, live in their purpose by, you know, putting them through trials and tribulations. So I feel like God put, you know, I'm saying football in my heart right now, and I'm just passionate for it. So it's just something I, you know, don't have to think about doing.

Audience Member/Moderator

Final question, third row.

Leo Hagerty (Amped Up Sports Draft Nation)

It's a Saturday night in Oxford. The lights are on. Von Hemingway Stadium is jumping. You're standing in the tunnel. You've been there before. But do you still get goosebumps every time?

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

Every time I come out and I see the fog, I get goosebumps and I get my blood boiling.

Audience Member/Moderator

Good job. Thank you very much.

Sports Reporter

My community gives me the confidence to ask myself, what would you like the power to do so. So every time I'm on the pitch, I play for more than myself.

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Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

Yes, sir.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

Thank you, Jayden. Morning.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

Mark Moses with Cumulus Media on the Space Coast.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

I gotta start with a tough one.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

Why did you decide to come back

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

to Florida with the coaching change?

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

And what sold you so far about this coaching staff?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

One, just being a Gator is everything to me. And being able to just, you know, play for the fans that support us when we're down up regardless. Like they came around and embraced me with open arms just to keep going. And I feel like that's the greatest thing to me. So that's why I stayed. And with the coaching staff, they came in with the fire in their eyes. And I tell everybody that when a coaching staff come in with a fire in their eye and they ready to just go, I'm ready to play right then.

Audience Member/Moderator

And there's microphone here. There you go.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

Hey, Jayden, Shaun with high top here. Excited to have you back, man. Thanks for returning back to the Florida Gators. I want to kind of get your perspective of how they've talked to you about how you're going to fit into this offense. Obviously coming off a fantastic thousand yard rushing last season, how do they plan to duplicate that for you heading into this season next year?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Well, you know, coach Buster, he came in. No, he was Recruiting me out of high school. When he was at Georgia Tech and we had a real, real good relationship, he was talking to me day in, day out, and he was just telling me how he could use me in the offense at quarterback, running back, anywhere on the field. And I feel like that's definitely going to get displayed this year.

Audience Member/Moderator

Going the third row on the aisle

Sports Reporter

here, Jaden, Jamie say from CBS in Orlando, I'm wondering what messages from coach Sumrall have really stuck out to you

Kevon (Ole Miss Football Player)

and to the team and that fire, has that permeated to the rest of the team?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Oh, yeah. Well, definitely the fire has definitely spread it throughout the team. And the. The main message that I got from just the staff in general, even Coach Summerall, is when things going bad, good, we all say good. If we're facing adversity, we all say good. Just because that's what builds character. When you're in adversity times, that's what helps us. So I know each and every day we come out there, coaches, them try to put us behind the wall and behind the line, but we also just look at it and be like, let's

Audience Member/Moderator

go, third row on the end, Abby

Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

Miller with a reflector from Mississippi State. With DJ Lagway leaving, how is the running back group adjusting to the two redshirt quarterbacks Again?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Those two quarterbacks are great quarterbacks. They're going to be able to, you know, display their talents this year. But as in the running back room, we stick to the same plan every day. Go out there, work hard, and just, you know, put our best efforts on the field because each and every day, you know, you're fighting for a job and all of us know that it's competitive, but also we're brothers as well. So.

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Front row, Jaden David Waters with Gators breakdown. There's been a lot of saying that the talent hasn't matched the results.

Leo Hagerty (Amped Up Sports Draft Nation)

Why is it going to be different

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now under coach Sumrall?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Well, we always had the pieces and it was just a more of like inside stuff with the team as into buying into the process, understanding the process a lot more just to keep going. And I feel like this year we have a lot of guys who want to and a lot of guys who's willing to, you know, sacrifice anything for the team. And it's been times where, you know, Coach Jim had to tell us to stop and, you know, chill out just because we have. We're putting so much on our body. So I feel like it's going to be very exciting this year.

Audience Member/Moderator

Second row on the aisle.

Sports Reporter

Jaden Hunter DeLaude, Atlanta Journal Constitution you guys are playing Georgia this year in Atlanta. I mean, just obviously you're an Atlanta native. What kind of have you thought about kind of the emotions of that game as far as the hometown reception and then obviously being one of your bigger rivals? How much would it mean for this program and for you guys to get over the hump of beating?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Well, a rivalry game in general is just exciting because there's so much around it. And we played this game in Jacksonville a couple times, and it was always exciting because you see the red, then you see the blue, and it gets loud at one time and then it got loud another time. But being able to go back home and play in front of my family and all my friends, that's, you know, it's very exciting for me. And I'm not too much, like, focused on I'm more focused on the game, though.

Audience Member/Moderator

Second rule on the end.

Leo Hagerty (Amped Up Sports Draft Nation)

Leo Haggerty, Amped up sports Draft nation here in Tampa. Obviously the top of your list of team goals. What individual goals are you aspiring to meet to make those team goals successful?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Becoming the best leader I can because, you know, we have a lot of guys who are transfers. You got a lot of young guys that came in and you got a lot of guys who stayed. But being able to be the best leader I can, to just teach them to just keep going and face that and face adversity, I think that's the main goal for me right now, to just help us be successful.

Audience Member/Moderator

Fourth row on the aisle, please.

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

How you doing? Jayden Rock Riley, WDA in Tampa I know it's a lot on the offense. You're on the offense, but going up

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

against the defense in spring ball, what are you seeing from this Gators defense defense this year?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Fast, electric. You know, you got a lot of guys who's ready to just put the pass on now, even so, I feel like that that group in general, they're going to be very, very tough to just, you know, be able to score on because coach them, they come they come around every day. They usually hear them yelling. And that excites me a lot more, too, because I know my defense ready to just go out there and, you know, kill anybody in front of them on the end.

Audience Member/Moderator

Third row.

Abby Miller (Reporter, Mississippi State)

Over your past few years at Florida, what has been your favorite stadium that you guys have traveled to and which one are you looking forward to most this season?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

I could say again, there's nothing like the Swamp in general, so I don't too much see another stadium that I'm just ready to just play in other than the Swamp.

Audience Member/Moderator

Third row on the left.

David Edelstein (Sports Director, WJTV)

Hey, Jaden. Jeff Dubrov with WFLA here in Tampa. I was curious, you know, with the coaching change this past offseason, a lot of uncertainty, but what was the process of Coach Summerall and his staff of making sure to get you back on campus and get you back with this roster? Do you remember anything that stuck out, that made it feel special in any sort of way?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

People don't know it, but he came to my grandmother's house on Christmas Day and we sat there and just talked about everything. And that stuck out to me the most because that showed a guy who cares. That showed a guy with character that when anything's going on, he does not care to a point where we're just trying to, you know, get me back on the team.

Audience Member/Moderator

You know, we're going to go on the end on the aisle in the back.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

Tim Bardon, 95.7wdae here in Tampa. Jaden, what to you has been the biggest difference you've seen so far in spring ball since spring ball with this new coaching staff compared to the previous coaching staff?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Well, I can say for a fact that the coaching staff now, we have a lot more guys into certain areas as we have OC we have defensive coordinator. You have the guys who stand around and help. They all coach us like it's the last day. And with that, I feel like that makes us better each and every day. And they push us 24 7. Like Coach Buster, he always tell me, high and tight, hide and tight. He's screaming. You're going to hear him as soon as you walk in the building and as soon as you walk out.

Audience Member/Moderator

Two final questions here and then pass it forward.

Michael Kavala (Reporter, WBRZ)

Hey, Jaden. Evan Cameco News 9, Oklahoma City. You spent last year with Hayden Hanson, a tight end who just transferred to Norman. What are the Sooners getting from him?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Hayden's a great player. Honestly. He can do a lot. I remember this one time where I think we was playing, like, Tennessee or something, and he lost, like, on a rep or whatever. He told me and the rest of the running backs, that's never going to happen again. So he's going to be a fighter regardless.

Audience Member/Moderator

Final question, second rule.

Leo Hagerty (Amped Up Sports Draft Nation)

Another September, Saturday, up in Gainesville, you're standing in the tunnel at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium again. You look out, you see all those gators, they're chomping. Do you still get goosebumps every time?

Jayden (Florida Gators Football Player)

Before I even touch campus, I could get goosebumps just because it's like it's different. I don't think you will ever get that feeling nowhere else. Because I done seen it as a recruit, as a fan. I also seen it as a player now. So being able to get goosebumps in a place like the Swamp, I feel like that's an honor.

Audience Member/Moderator

Jayden, thank you very much. Good job.

Sports Reporter

My community gives me the confidence to ask myself, what would you like the power to do? So every time I'm on the pitch, I played for more than myself.

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