Let's start with the numbers, because it's the only reasonable place to begin when talking about a player's season that still doesn't feel quite real. Even those who witnessed it aren't exactly sure how to describe what they saw.
These aren't Madden numbers. You couldn't do what Lee Witherspoon did this past fall in any virtual world, difficulty be damned. This is something else entirely—the kind of season that running backs are not supposed to produce at any level.
The first eight times the Mississippi State signee carried the football for North Jackson High School in Stevenson, Alabama—a small town of a few thousand people nestled up against the Tennessee border—he accounted for 301 yards and six touchdowns.