Defensive Back Aaron Flowers discusses his growth through last season to now

I'm Breanne Maranthus with Oregon Ducks on SI with Aaron Flowers. Aaron, what is the number one biggest difference in you as a player this year compared to last year? I feel my experience and me just my diet and everything I feel like I've changed as a person and changed as a player. What about what did you change about your diet? I just started eating way better, eating more protein and eating cleaner. I got way faster in offseason so that's a bigger goal and I lost a lot of body fat. How much body fat? I lost four pounds of body fat and then gained four pounds of muscle so yeah. So with Dylan Dynamon off to the NFL, how do you feel like maybe your leadership role has changed with the Ducks? It's grown for sure. My coach Hampton pushed me through to become a bigger leader because he left but I still talk a lot, talk way more and then I have to lead more in the secondary but we still got Koi in so we got a bunch of older guys in secondary that talk a lot so it's even. How has it been having Koi come in? What do you think he brings to the table as far as coming in from the transfer portal? He brings in a lot of athleticism and being a great player. Obviously he's one of the best safeties in college football. He's really good, really great ball skills. I feel like we have a monster season this year for us. What makes him maybe unique or different from some of the other players that you've played with? I just feel like he just has a natural instinct to get the ball. I feel like he wants it. No matter what, where he's at, he's gonna try to get it so that's what really makes him different from other players.