Miami's Star Corner OJ Frederique Jr. on Leadership, Weight, and Team Growth in Fall Camp

I'd like to notice how well you're playing right now, practice after practice. What's behind that, are you just feeling like you're at the best that you can? I mean, I'd like to thank the strength and conditioning staff and the person who get my body prepared. I gained a couple pounds, got stronger faster, and I'm getting older as well. So, and I wanna thank my position coaches for preparing me and letting me know I have to be a leader and step up. So, if I'm able to practice on the post-practice, the younger guys and other guys will see my energy and they'll eventually go on to them. So, I have to do that. So, I just wanna thank my guys in my room and my position coaches for their assistance. Where's the biggest area where you feel like you've grown the most? I feel like me taking the ball away. I know this kept coming up. I gotta do a big job taking the ball away and getting in the run, getting a little physical. The last year I was showing a little error and not playing the ball. So, I'm just trying to play the ball more and get more in the record. And even though you've bulked up, what are you measuring in at now? Right now, I'm trying to measure my weight from 195 to 200 pounds. So, just keeping it there right now is gonna be the best for me. And where were you playing that last year? Last year, I was playing at 188 or 190. And the extra 5, 10 pounds, how does that help you as you're running around the field? I mean, I feel stronger and faster, like I told you guys earlier. I feel like I'm at my best right now. So, I just wanna stay at this weight and just keep competing. Now, right now, I'm just worried about camp and just being one more every day. Whatever happens, happens. I'm not really worried about that right now. I just wanna work if I'm competing and get better every day and helping my teammates get better as well. What's it like on the campus receiving for it? How much does it make you have to be better, basically, immediately? I mean, I have to come every day with it. Cuz if I don't come with it, they're gonna take advantage of that. I mean, we have a lot of guys from older to younger that has a lot of fuel. And I have to keep going, and I have to do me. Cuz if I don't come with it, I know they're gonna take advantage of that. So, I just wanna thank my team for that.