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Johnny Manziel: My Dad Tried to Get $3M Deal for Me to Play 2 More Years at Texas A&M

The family of Johnny Manziel attempted to set a seven-figure price tag in order to get him to stay at Texas A&M, according to the man himself.

"It's the spring of 2014, December 2013, right in there about December/January, I'm getting ready to make this decision on if I'm going to the NFL Draft or if I'm going to stay," he said on Shannon Sharpe's Club Shay Shay podcast (via Thomas Goldkamp of On3). "And I found this out five years later from my dad.

"But my dad went and had a meeting with Kevin Sumlin.