This young man plays in the same region as our local high school. Top to bottom I would put this region up against any region in the country: includes Colquitt County (which finished in the top 10 of most national high school polls), perennial powers Lowndes High, Camden, and Valdosta. At one point this season, 4 of the 6 region teams were in the top 9 in Georgia's highest classification, and 4 of the teams ended the season in the top 10.
I have watched Sihiem for a while against some very good competition, and he is the real deal. Don't let his size make you think he can't play RB at the SEC level. He can. He has great vision, speed, quick cuts, and he is tough to bring down.
He will have a great football mindset, because no one takes football more seriously than the Colquitt County folks. Not only will they regularly have 10,000 in attendance from a town of 14,000 people and a county of about 45,000, they will typically sell several thousand pre-game meals prepared by their school's extra-curricular activities groups to help raise funds. On Friday nights Colquitt football is the only show in town, and the rest of the week it is the only topic of discussion in town.
As an aside, their local paper is reporting that every one of Colquitt's 15 senior starters have been offered by colleges.
