ricky williams

Ricky Williams is a former Footballer who enjoyed an 11-year playing career and has since worked as an analyst for ESPN but has perhaps become better known for his new career as an astrologer and herbal wellness expert — in late 2021, he launched his own legal cannabis lifestyle brand, Highsman. A long-time advocate for the legalisation of cannabis, Williams got the name Highsman from punning on the Heisman Trophy he won as a promising college footballer nearly 25 years ago.

Williams enjoyed highly successful high school and college football careers. During his time playing for the University of Texas’ Longhorns team, he became known as the Texas Tornado and enjoyed a career so successful that his number was retired after he graduated, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, and top it all, two statues of him was erected on university property. That’s without listing the countless honours and trophies he won during his time there. Unsurprisingly, he was picked in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft, with the New Orleans Saints being so keen to get him that they traded all of their remaining picks, making it the first time a club had only ever drafted one player.

After two years with the Saints, Williams moved to the Miami Dolphins where he enjoyed the height of his footballing success, becoming the NFL’s leading rusher and being named a first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl player. In 2004, he announced his shock retirement but soon returned to the game, playing in Canada before returning to the Dolphins. By this time, he was one of the game’s elder players, but he still managed to rush over 1,000 yards in a season, a feat few in their 30s had ever managed.