Jaheim Oatis announced on Twitter this weekend that he’s already received scholarship offers from Alabama, Ole Miss and Mississippi State.
Oatis is getting ready to go into the eighth grade in Columbia, Miss. But before you start shaking your head and muttering about an eighth-grader receiving offers, know that Oatis is a 6-foot-4, 286-pounder.
Columbia is a town of about 6,000 people in the southwest portion of the state, about 20 miles north of the Louisiana line and about 35 miles west of Hattiesburg. Chances are, college coaches will become quite familiar with Columbia in the next few years.