 Lauren Silvio is in her second season as the Titans Nutrition Coordinator. She quickly built respect around the Titans with her knowledge, her background, her ability, and her professionalism. But she also occupies an important role to today's football players. These guys understand that nutrition is a major part of their preparation. I would say nutrition is a huge role. You know, one thing is, I'm here as a resource for them. I can't, you know, have them do everything. Like I can tell them what to do and I can educate them on what to do, but they have to actually take that knowledge and use it themselves. Lauren Silvio earned her undergraduate degree at Alabama and a master's degree at LSU. After three years of internships, she was hired full-time at LSU before handling nutrition at Auburn for six years. The Titans hired her prior to the 2022 season. The team quickly learned that multitasking may be her most impressive skill. A normal day sees Lauren Silvio never stop. I'll go in and work on anything I need to from like a meal plan standpoint or maybe talk with the chefs in the kitchen about what menus we're doing during the season. They'll come out for a snack prior to practice because we practice right in the middle of the day. And so it's kind of an interesting scheduling situation with food, making sure they're eating the right things before they go out to practice and then coming back in from practice and having another kind of lunch situation. So you want to make sure that you're telling them what to eat that's not going to hurt their stomach before they go out and run, making sure that there are things they're going to have enough energy to go out there because sometimes they worry that if they eat too much in the mornings they're not going to feel good at practice, but there's kind of that balance in helping each guy understand what they need to be doing from that standpoint. After practice, we'll come back in and have lunch. I'll be in there if they have any questions about stuff, what to put on their plate. During this past off season, she came up with a plan for every player. They talk goals, nutrition, staying consistent with the plan, etc. And Lauren Silvio is a constant presence. She isn't just in her office or in the cafeteria. She's at practice, in meeting rooms, on the sidelines during games, on road trips, you name it. Yeah, it's a huge relationship building to be present at all times and in different spaces. So if you sit in your office all day, they might be a little intimidated to come in and talk to you if they don't get to know you. If you're not in the meal room, if you're not at practice helping them, that's something that's really important to build those relationships and trust because nutrition can be a thing that people don't really want to talk about. It may be more fitting to call Lauren Silvio the Titans nutrition coach. Her trust and respect among Titans players seems to be growing by the day. As long as we can continue to emphasize nutrition, I think that's the most important thing. And I have great support from Coach Frable and Frank in the weight room and the athletic training staff as well. So being able to have all of those people kind of supporting nutrition and being able to help the guys is the ultimate goal. And I think that the more that I'm here, the more that we can implement new things and, you know, educate more and kind of find where we want to increase the nutrition's role. Lauren Silvio, important to this football team. Yeah, absolutely. She does a fantastic job. I love her energy. I love her spirit. I love the fact that, you know, during practice, she's out there hustling and helping Todd and his staff and coordinates the meals and plans the meals. And, you know, we get these rookies and a lot of them don't have the same type of nutrition that the SEC schools or Big Ten schools or bigger schools had. And, you know, she teaches them how to go shopping and cook and make meals at home in the off season or during the season at night when maybe they're not here at work. So just a great role and, again, no job is too small for Lauren and we appreciate what she does. Her first role is making sure that the players are healthy internally and that, you know, they're trying to eat the right things and have the right supplements and then anything else that she can do, she does.