Jayden Maiava Confronts Self-Inflicted Mistakes After Lincoln Riley’s Blunt Wake-Up Call Following Lincoln Riley's criticism, Jayden Maiava confronts issues and mistakes in his game as he vows to rais

Head coach Lincoln Riley called out Jayden Maiava for making mistakes in the Nebraska game. Looks like Maiava took it to heart as he made amends to his game, leading the USC Trojans to a 38-17 win over Northwestern. He talked about building on it in his post-training media interaction.

In a video uploaded by InsideTroy, Maiava opened up about his growth. “Definitely a lot of room for me to learn. a lot of room for me to get better. As well as everybody around me. So I think just us feeding off each other and bouncing ideas about what we could do for each other to make the team better. I think yeah, just in this last stretch, continue to sharpen our edge. And be better for each other around us, and just raise the standard,” he said.

Against Nebraska, Jayden Maiava completed just 9