Johnny Manziel opens up about cash deal that would have had him return to Texas A&M for another season

Manziel may be the most popular college football player that we have ever seen. No one took the game by storm as quickly as Manziel did in his time with Texas A&M. As a freshman, Manziel became the first one to win the Heisman Trophy with a remarkable season. Manziel threw 26 touchdown passes and added 1,410 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns on the ground.

“My dad did this without me knowing,” explained Manziel. “I ain’t mad at him about it for nothing. It was how the business worked back then. There was a bagman. There was a bag man at LSU [and] there was a bag man at Bama. There was a bagman at every school around the country if you were competing for a national title.”

Despite coming out and having an even more dynamic passing season as a sophomore and an offer supposedly being on the table, Johnny Football didn’t stick around for another season. Manziel himself has a pretty good idea of why it didn’t happen.

“He had this ego about him that what we built was all him,” Manziel said of Sumlin.

Manziel as a pro just never worked out and the writing was likely always on the wall. But one has to wonder what a third year of Manziel in the college football landscape would have been like.