Highsman

Website: https://highsman.com

Highsman is the cannabis brand Ricky Williams built after a football career that put him at odds with the league over the plant. It sells indoor flower in three formats plus apparel, all under one line — Spark Greatness — and runs on the premise that cannabis and high performance belong in the same sentence.

The range is three formats of the same indoor-grown flower. The Hit Stick is a 0.5-gram disposable bowl the brand calls a dispos-a-bowl, pitched as a cross between a pre-roll and a chillum with engineered airflow, and explicitly not a vape. The 1.2-gram pre-roll is the sharing format — 20% more flower than a standard gram.

Ground Game rounds it out with seven grams of pre-ground flower for people who roll their own. Every format runs through the same triple infusion: THCA diamonds, fresh frozen live resin and high terpene extract. Pre-rolls list a 38 to 44 percent THC range; Ground Game lists 40 percent.

Five strains carry the whole catalog, and the names commit hard to the bit: Touchdown Tango Mango, Blueberry Blitz, Gridiron Grape, Wavey Watermelon and Cake Quake. Flower is 100% indoor cultivated with no trim and no shake — whole flower only. Every batch is lab-tested for purity and potency, and the results are published on the site.

The founder credential is the real one. Williams broke the all-time NCAA rushing record at Texas in 1998, took the Heisman Trophy, and went fifth overall to the Saints. He then walked away from the league rather than give up cannabis, came back on his own terms, and became the first 1,800-yard rusher in Dolphins history and a Pro Bowler.

Highsman products sit on shelves in six states, with a store locator on the homepage and a direct menu for New Jersey. Wholesale runs through the site's contact form. There is also a full apparel line — varsity jackets, hoodies, tees and a deep hat program, including Miami and Chicago city hats and a number 34 tee.

The brand tells its own story in a nine-minute film on the site, and the whole visual system leans varsity — script wordmark, team-issue typography, roster language for the product range. Nothing about the packaging pretends to be a wellness brand.

Our read is that this is one of the few athlete brands where the conviction predates the business. Williams chose the plant over the playbook when that choice cost him seasons, and Highsman is that argument in product form rather than a name rented to a licensee. The football-pun strain names are corny on purpose, and we rate them for it.

The Hit Stick is the interesting object in all of this: a disposable that is still combusted flower rather than a cart, which is a genuinely different pitch in a market full of vapes. Start there if you want to know what the brand is actually about.

Check the store locator on the brand's own site to see whether it has reached your state, then read the strain lineup first — the five run from sativa-dominant to heavy indica, so picking blind is a waste of a good pre-roll.