but first three games of the year Georgia AB state andc state so just is it game by game or do you kind of like section out the year in terms of uh how you feel about each section of the year uh coach Sweeny likes to actually section it out uh my first quarter second quarter third quarter fourth quarter but the way I see it is one g at a one game at a time honestly just being just having the opportunity to play a game not knowing if I will be able to play the next game you know I just put my effort into one single game at the time there are some really uh Stand Out ACC running backs here today you've seen a few of them before you you'll see Waters in the different ACC uniform this year just anything on this conference being so dominant with the running back Talent yeah we have a lot of talent at running back and um I really feel like uh the ACC had just done a great job in you know being known for that and um that's one big reason I wanted to come here just seeing guys like Wayne Gman from my high school go to Clemson um Travis etn you know it's just gave me great confidence in choosing Clemson and uh obviously you'll miss Shipley you do Miss Shipley but the opportunity to kind of just like stay on for drives and possessions uh pass pickup run catch being the three down element this year obviously you want this year to be the year of years right so just the staying on the field for every down and being a three down back and really exploding in that role this year I'm just excited for opportunity honestly the opportunity to help my team uh to individually show what I can do on the field and just to just give it another year another shot to go in and uh that's just really the greatest thing the greatest opportunity I have just to build memories with my teammates and just to build connections you talk about your mindset in the main room how do you think kind of your leadership kind of role has involved evolved in your time at Clemson uh my mindset has helped a lot just one thing I say all the time is just getting closer to God my faith as my faith increases know that keeps me locked in in my mindset having Integrity doing what I need to do every day you know allows me to take charge of my life so that I can help others take charge of their life and just to lift them up in any way I can coach weeny last week talked about the last three years they've been good but not great what do you all need to do this year to have a great season on offense in particular uh we need to take care of the football first and foremost and secondly we need to in Red Zone we really need a fish in Red Zone and um if we do those two things I feel like we'll be have a great year you talked about your nutrition next door what about anything kind of on the field that you've been working on or kind of honing in heading into this season uh on the field I've been really focusing on my speed this year doing a lot of speed training and that's one thing I really just hope to show this year is my speed awesome Phil unfortunately injuries happen and unfortunately you saw a couple of injuries last year what advice you have for players that are currently going through the injury bug because there's frustration and all that what advice can you give them and what do you do to try to prevent future Ines uh one advice one piece of advice I'll would give them is just don't give up you know you can go through tough times but as long as you keep going you're always going to get out of it and um one way that I try to prevent injury is doing prehab I prehab every single day on you know any part of my body just to make myself 1% better every day last year you just came up short spine injuries you almost had a th yards this year so is that going to be obviously one of your top goals or is there more to it than just that uh I'll would say there's more to it than just that but yeah definitely breaking a th is one of my goals but one of my big goals just to pour a little out pour out my everything I have from my teammates and just to encourage them this being my last year mark on my team univers my last question for you um I know etn is busy with the offseason everything but has he reached out to you has Shi he reached out to you who have you talked to for past um I've talked to etn for sure I've talked to him had a couple conversations with him um way Gman as I said he went to my high school I was able to talk to him he at um some of our games he at the spring game um had good conversations with him and Sh he was my roommate so I spent so much time with him I was just down training with him a couple weeks ago and he doing great you know it's just been it's awesome to have those connection what advice have they given you uh just to have fun this year my last year part that wining back repeat that have you imparted some of that wisdom that you learned from older running backs to the younger running backs in the room frequency yeah I just try to uphold the standard you know there's a standard in the running back room know coach sper being there being like the OG of the real you know he sets that standard I just relate it to everyone else and um that's just my job you mentioned the offensive line earlier the main how's they how have they looked in the spring of entering summer preg oh they looked amazing honestly um know Matt Luke coming in here and just changing our o line he's a great coach uh just having four starters back and having guys that have started the game all back has been amazing having to come in there at Center this year has been great and um I just see more mature offensive line guys that know what to do know what to expect and I'm just really excited to see what they're going to do this year